ARL joins LCA members and EFF in amicus brief supporting Google Book Settlement - August 3, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently joined other members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) - the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) - and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to file a friend of the court brief… Read More
Scanning project never hurt book sales, says Google - July 30, 2012
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has submitted court filings stating that its massive book scanning project is fair use because it has delivered many public benefits without harming authors. The company has been fighting a court battle with the Authors Guild on the project,… Read More
CCC announces Annual Copyright License for university hospitals - July 19, 2012
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced its Annual Copyright License for university Hospitals. Developed to meet the content reuse and business needs of university hospitals and their employees, including medical students in clinical training, the license combines the rights and… Read More
Google may pay $22.5 million fine over Safari privacy breach - July 10, 2012
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, will reportedly have to pay $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of consumers using Apple's Safari browser. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the fine would be the largest… Read More
Nature Publishing Group wins 3-year El Naschie libel trial - July 9, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that it has won a case brought against it by theoretical physicist Mohamed El Naschie. In 2008, Nature published an article by journalist Quirin Schiermeier, questioning the lack of peer review at the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,… Read More
Scientific Reports offer authors Creative Commons Attribution license - June 27, 2012
Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group publication, is introducing the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license as an option for authors. The CC-BY license will be available to authors submitting articles on or after July 1, 2012, in addition to the two non-commercial Creative Commons licenses currently… Read More
Google appeals against class action status for Authors Guild lawsuit - June 18, 2012
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has confirmed that its attorneys have filed a petition to appeal Judge Denny Chin’s recent order granting the Authors Guild’s motion for class certification in its ongoing litigation. While details of the appeal filing were not immediately available, the… Read More
Google ends legal dispute with French authors over book scanning project - June 12, 2012
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has reportedly ended legal disputes with a French publishing trade group and a French authors’ association over the company’s scanning of books. The Syndicat National de l’Edition and the SGDL Society of Authors agreed with Google to end litigation… Read More
Lawsuit against Google Book Search gets class action status in US - June 4, 2012
A federal judge in Manhattan recently granted class-action status to authors suing Internet search services provider Google, US, over the company’s book-scanning project. The judge, allowing the long-stalled case to move forward, ruled that three individual authors and the Author's Guild could represent the class of… Read More
More than 100 campuses sign up for CCC’s Get It Now service - May 23, 2012
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced over 100 campuses have signed up for CCC's Get It Now service since its 2011 launch. 'Get It Now' complements an institution's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing digital copies of journal articles in… Read More
