Showing posts with label Legal Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legal Issues. Show all posts

14 June 2010

Important E-Reserves Lawsuit

"In a lawsuit against Georgia State University over e-reserves, scholarly publishing faces a defining moment."

20 April 2009

Google Books Rival Objects to Settlement

"San Francisco's Internet Archive says the Google books settlement needs an intervention.
The digital library wants to intervene in the $125 million settlement with authors and publishers that gives Google the rights to scan and sell books on the Internet. In a Friday letter to the New York judge handling the case, the Internet Archive claims that if the settlement is approved, it would give Google a monopoly on so-called orphan works -- out-of-print books whose copyright owner can't be found or isn't known."