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 works [...]

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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 will [...]

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Following yesterday’s announcement by Amazon that the Kindle is going global from next week, there’s been a flurry of activity trying to sort out the details and implications of the announcement.
Given the scale of the announcement — the move will make the Kindle, previously only available in the US, accessible to readers in 100 countries [...]

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Amazon’s Kindle is going global. From October 19, customers in 100 countries will be able to buy a Kindle, buy ebooks from the Kindle’s 200,000+ English language titles, and do it all over the wireless network that has made the Kindle so popular.
[Update: 1:37pm Just had a call to tell me that Amazon is not [...]

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The US Register of Copyright has come out swinging against the proposed Google Book settlement, describing it as “fundamentally at odds with the law.”
“By permitting Google to engage in a wide array of new uses of most books in existence the settlement would alter the landscape of copyright law,” said head Marybeth Peters in testimony [...]

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