LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works - October 15, 2012
The US' Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling not only allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled,… Read More
Association of American Publishers and Google announce settlement agreement - October 5, 2012
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Internet search services provider Google have announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitised by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation.… Read More
Publisher-plaintiffs to appeal court ruling in Georgia State University copyright case - September 11, 2012
Publishers Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press USA and SAGE have announced their intention to appeal the May 11, 2012 decision in the copyright case with Georgia State University (GSU). The three, who are members of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), have stated that as… Read More
Education companies settle copyright and trademark infringement claims against textbook distributors - September 5, 2012
Four leading education companies - Cengage Learning, Inc., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Pearson Education, Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education – have announced that they have settled five unconnected matters involving copyright and trademark infringement claims against companies relating to the sale of counterfeit textbooks. The five… Read More
US Dept. of Justice refutes objections raised over e-book pricing deal - August 24, 2012
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said that arguments made by various organisations objecting to the final judgment reached between the government and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster over e-book price fixing charges raise no real new issues. The DoJ has therefore asked that… Read More
Apple, Publishers file opposition to Dept. of Justice settlement - August 17, 2012
Apple recently filed an opposition to the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with three publishers in its e-book price-fixing case, arguing that the company stands to be punished by the deal though it never 'participated in, encouraged, or sought to benefit from collusion,' and assailing a… Read More
Publishers’ statement on injunctive and declaratory relief in the copyright infringement lawsuit - August 15, 2012
The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia recently handed down a ruling on injunctive and declaratory relief in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by academic publishers against Georgia State University. According to a statement from the publisher plaintiffs the District Court’s decision is marred by a number… Read More
Wiley journals adopt CC-BY licence allowing commercial use of published articles - August 15, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access programme. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles. The Wiley Open Access portfolio… Read More
Google to pay $22.5 million to settle FTC charges on misrepresentation to Safari users - August 10, 2012
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has agreed to pay a record $22.5 million civil penalty to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges. According to the charges, Google misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.'s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking "cookies"… Read More
Authors suing Google want $750 for each scanned book - August 6, 2012
Authors suing Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, over the digitising of books have reportedly asked the judge to order the company to pay $750 for each book it copied, distributed or displayed. The authors' filing, which had been lodged in… Read More
