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Google Book Search 'will never have competitor': Doctorow
Cory Doctorow thinks that if Google Book Search succeeds in the Settlement and begins to sell 'orphan works' it will have an effective monopoly as no other player will ever be big enough to compete.
ARROW seeks to solve orphan works issue
ARROW, a European Commission-funded project based in libraries, aims to identify the great majority of rightful copyright owners of so-called 'orphan' works.
Will Europe's 3 million orphan works ever be digitised?
Differences in copyright laws are only one of the barriers to digitising Europe's estimated three million 'orphan works', according to Publishing Perspectives.
EU seeks to ease digital rights restrictions
The European Union is seeking to ease restrictions on access to digital material caused by differing laws in different countries, with the aim of making access to out-of-print and orphan works easier ...
Google deadline delayed until September
PW reports: In a surprise move, New York Judge Denny Chin [has] granted a four-month extension to a group of authors, led by Gail Knight Steinbeck, delaying the May 5 deadline to opt out or object to ...
Google settlement intervention motion dismissed
A US court has dismissed the attempt by the Internet Archive to intervene in the proposed Google Books settlement. The Archive was seeking to alter the proposed settlement to give other companies that...
The dead souls left behind by Google
'This column argues that the proposed settlement of this lawsuit is a privately negotiated compulsory license primarily designed to monetize millions of orphan works. It will benefit Google and certai...
Google Book Search 'all about the orphans'
Numerous commentators in the copyright and legal worlds are warning that the greatest potential impact of the Google Book Search settlement will be on so-called 'orphan works', and a lawyer in the US ...
European digital library aims to save 'orphans'
Europeana, a new pan-European 'digital cultural database', has as one of its main aims to preserve and protect 'orphan works' -- such as the millions of books that that are out of print and ...
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