The post below was written for the June 2011 issue of the Australian Booksellers Association magazine News on Bookselling. It was written shortly after the rejection by Judge Chin of the Google Books Settlement so it’s somewhat old news. But it did remind me that we haven’t yet heard anything from the parties about what [...]

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A plan to create a vast digital library by scanning millions of books without explicit copyright permission has been thrown out in a long-awaited ruling issued today by New York District Court Judge Denny Chin. The ruling concerned the long running Google Books Settlement, a class action orginally started in 2005 when authors and publishers [...]

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Outside the US, there’s been a slow dawning that the very complex, far-reaching Google Book settlement will have important implications for foreign rightsholders too. It will drag many into something they had no say over, driven by parties with no mandate to represent them. In New Zealand, it hasn’t been well-received, particularly by authors following [...]

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