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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I’ve posted below the full notice that was just sent out to rightsholders who had registered under the original settlement agreement. This is the official court summary of the key changes to the Amended Settlement filed by the parties last month. Notable, of course, is the change relating to the territories from which the published [...]

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Google and a group of partners filed revised settlement terms in a US federal court on Friday. The revised terms are notable for the exclusion of works from many countries that objected to its original settlement proposal. The new proposal essentially covers just works from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Representatives from those countries [...]

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