GOOGLE VIEWS: Google Book Search

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If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It's a complicated legal document, but we've talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders - and break it all down for you. The Google Book Settlement Writing on O'Reilly Radar, preeminent legal scholar Pamela Samuelson cuts through the distractions associated with the google book search/Authors Guild settlement and goes right to the heart of the matter: Google, in acceding to the Authors Guild's who heads google book search in Europe, did say, "You may just want to rent a travel guide for the holiday or by a chapter of a book. Ultimately, it will be the readers to decide how books are read." This doesn't describe the current market for e-books At this point, Google and the Authors Guild must feel like they are in a James Joyce novel. The Google Books case drags on with no hint of when the six-year dispute might finally be settled, four months after a final hearing was supposed to decide the The U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a 2013 lower court ruling that Google’s library book scanning project is protected by fair use and is not copyright infringement. The suit, The Authors Guild vs. Google, filed by the Authors Remember the Google Book (Class Action) Settlement? It’s been some time since there’s been any news. After many months of waiting, the court handed down its decision today — a defeat for Google and those who supported the settlement. The Authors .

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Ben Zimmer, executive producer of a Web site and software package called the Visual Thesaurus, was seeking the earliest use of the phrase “you’re not the boss of me.” Using a newspaper database, he had found a reference from That is the year that google book search (books.google.com) has set as the cut-off point for public domain status in its U.S. offerings. Before that year, all library partners in the program let Google’s mass digitization program grind away Google has won a resounding victory in its eight-year copyright battle with the Authors Guild over the search giant’s controversial decision to scan more than 20 million books from libraries and make them available on the internet. In a ruling (embedded Google Books may be mired in controversy, but that isn't stopping Google from regularly adding new features to the service. Today, Google Books received a major update, with seven new and useful features, including the ability to easily embed a book into a .