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Home :: Copyright Law 04 Oct 2012 Publishers settle with Google Copyright Law Google's book scanning project has been the subject of two long running lawsuits. One of them, from a group of publishers settled today. Articles in Publisher's Weekly and the New York Times note that although the terms of the settlement are confidential, it's very unlikely that the publishers got much more than what Google already offered. See more ... posted at: 17:57 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/goopub.trackback 24 Mar 2011 Judge Chin shoves the Google settlement toward sanity Copyright Law The Google book settlement has been grinding through the courts since the Authors' Guild and Association of American Publishers (AAP) sued them in a class action in 2005, and they came to a tentative settlement in 2008. Yesterday Judge Denny Chin once again rejected the proposed settlement, with a strong hint about how to fix it. Fortunately for the American public, Judge Chin is an excellent judge with a deep understanding of the issues, and his opinion makes it clear what all the problems with the proposed settlement are. See more ... posted at: 09:57 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/googrej.trackback 13 Sep 2010 How is clickwrap software like a stolen work of art? Copyright Law A recent case decided by a three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit has been widely reported as saying that shrink-wrap license agreements on software supersede the traditional first sale rule, and mean that software vendors can keep customers from reselling packaged software. Having read the decision, it's a case with a messy set of facts that don't quite mean that first sale is dead. See more ... posted at: 15:25 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/not1st.trackback 27 Jul 2010 It's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, sort of Copyright Law Recent fairly breathless news coverage has said that the US government has said it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone. That's somewhat correct but the reality is, as usual, somewhat more complex. See more ... posted at: 23:02 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/jailbreak.trackback 26 May 2010 What are e-books worth? (Part I) Copyright Law For us authors who have been writing paper books, e-books are the savior of the industry, or a a disastrous pact with the devil, or maybe both at the same time. The splashy launch of the Apple iPad, of which there are now over a million in users' hands, has coincided with a power struggle among Amazon, whose Kindle makes them the dominant retailer of e-books, Apple, who wants to muscle in using the iPad, and the major book publishers. Google also plans to enter the market this summer through their Google Editions store, selling copies of many of the books they've scanned in Google Books. There are two main problems with the e-book market--e-books are not much cheaper for a publisher to produce than paper books, but they are for the buyer a far inferior product. See more ... posted at: 16:22 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/ebook.trackback

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