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Say goodbye to Google Books Settlement for good
The heavily criticized proposed settlement between Google and a small group of authors and publishers has been dealt a final, fatal blow, reports Publishers Weekly this morning—although in this case the deathblow comes indirectly because it’s actually about a different, … Continue reading
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Tagged asa, authors guild, book scanning, book search, class-action, copyright, fair use, google, google books settlement, lawsuits, settlements
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U.S. Copyright Office okays stripping DRM on some types of ebooks
Update: I may be getting too excited; readers over at Teleread say this was already possible, and today’s announcement just affirmed that it will remain an exemption for the next three years. The Copyright Office is handing out a whole … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking, circumvention, copyright, copyright office, cracked, disabled, dmca, drm, ebooks, exemptions, fair use, kindle, library of congress, loc, loopholes, text to speech, tts
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Notes from yesterday's Google Book Search settlement workshop
Here were the main themes discussed at yesterday’s Google Book Search settlement workshop hosted by the National Writers Union (NWU). Continue reading
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Tagged aiken, authors guild, book search, class-action, copyright, digital, ebooks, fair use, google, lawsuits, lynn chu, online, panel discussions, publishers, settlement, union, websites, workshops, writers
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What Neil Gaiman likes about the Kindle, and why you should care
Hopefully you don’t need a Famous Author to validate your purchasing decisions, so I’m not posting about Neil Gaiman’s opinions on the Kindle just to make you feel better/worse about your new ereader. Instead, I thought it might provide some … Continue reading →