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Google settlement could breach US treaties and cause 'diplomatic stress'
In a legal analysis done for the Open Book Alliance, intellectual property lawyer Cynthia Arato, a partner at the law firm of Macht, Shapiro, Arato and Isseries, reiterated her belief that ...
revised summary of Google settlement issues
With the Google Settlement now in the hands of a federal judge, The Public Index, a group organized by New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann and his students, have updated and posted a rev...
Google Settlement judge promoted
Judge Danny Chin, who is presiding over the Google Settlement, has been appointed to the US Court of Appeal. It is not clear if he will be able to finalise his judgement on the Google case before taki...
Thousands of authors opt out of Google Settlement
With a decision still before the US courts, papers submitted to the Fairness Hearing have reveled that thousands of authors decided to opt out of the revised Google Settlement.
Google Settlement: judge unable to rule on Fairness Hearing
Judge Danny Chin told the Fairness Hearing into the proposed revised Google Settlement held in New York on 18 February that he was unable to make an immediate ruling due to the overwhelming amount of ...
Will US Dept of Justice objection scuttle Google settlement?
The US Department of Justice has lodged a formal objection to the revised Google Books settlement, saying that 'the public interest would best be served by direction from the Court encouraging the con...
Open Book Alliance files objection to Google settlement
The Open Book Alliance -- which includes Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft, as well as the [US] National Writers Union, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Special Libraries Association -- ha...
Indian authors, publishers latest to object to Google settlement
A group of 15 Indian authors' associations, publishers and copyright organisations have joined together to object to the proposed Google settlement. The final hearing on the settlement in the US court...
Le Guins leads sci-fi authors' opposition to Google settlement
Legendary sci-fi author Ursula le Guin is spearheading a campaign against the Google settlement, supported by the National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Scien...
Revised Google Settlement gets preliminary approval
Judge Danny Chin has granted preliminary approval to the revised Google settlement, and set 18 February 2010 as the date for a final hearing.
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