FIGHT: Google vs French and Brazilian media
Ellie Robins
Media bodies in both France and Brazil have started scraps with Google lately over its use of their news content. Most worryingly: in France there’s a danger that news content… Read more »
Media bodies in both France and Brazil have started scraps with Google lately over its use of their news content. Most worryingly: in France there’s a danger that news content… Read more »
A federal judge handed down summary judgement in yet another Authors Guild lawsuit last week, ruling that book scanning by libraries is “transformative” and thus fair use under copyright law.… Read more »
In an agreement with the ABA, independent bookstores will be able to use Kobo to sell e-books and, through Ingram, e-readers in their stores.… Read more »
Former Random House CEO Alberto Vitale is back from the dead, expounding on the future of publishing and desperately trying to seem relevant in a long interview posted on Publishing… 2 / Read more »
This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »
Earlier this year, MobyLives wrote about a Google-commissioned report that characterized the tech giant as a publisher, for First Amendment purposes. Now Cory Doctorow, writing in The Guardian, outlines the… Read more »
Google can’t seem to get out of court in the U.S. — it’s been there since 2007, when it was first sued by pretty much the entire book industry for… Read more »
Federal judge Denny Chin has issued a written decision granting class-action status to authors trying to sue Google for scanning over 20 million copyrighted books without permission — meaning the… Read more »
A new advocacy paper by a prominent First Amendment scholar argues that Google is a publisher, and as such, its search results are free to favor some sites and block others,… 1 / Read more »
The Google Book Search Settlement is back in court. Surely you remember the Google Book Search Settlement? — actually, it’s the settlement that wasn’t, but in case you’ve forgotten, here’s… 1 / Read more »