Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Court Rejects Google Book Settlement

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Yesterday, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin rejected the Book Rights Registry settlement between Google and the US Authors Guild. The $125 mil...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Individual Rights Versus the Collective

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For the last several days, we've been responding to queries about the announced "class-action" lawsuit by "visual arts...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

White House Seeks Artists' Comments to Improve Copyright Protection

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New Copyright Czar begins Joint Strategic Plan to Protect Intellectual Property Victoria Espinel is the first U.S. Intellectual Property En...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Authors Groups Meet in Oslo

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OSLO NORWAY Over 60 authors organizations met here this week to discuss strategies for defending authors' rights in the digitized world....
Friday, October 2, 2009

Orphan Works and the Google Settlement Part 3: Compelling Arguments

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Compelling Arguments On September 10, 2009, Marybeth Peters, Register of the US Copyright Office, testified before Congress in opposition ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Orphan Works and the Google Book Settlement / Part II

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A Reversal of Copyright Law Last Friday we summarized the basic details of the Google Book Search Settlement. Like the visual arts "da...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Orphan Works and the Google Book Settlement / Part I

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We’ve been asked for news about the Orphan Works bill. Last June Intellectual Property Watch warned that it would be back during the summer....