July 3, 2009 – The Los Angeles Times reported that the Department of Justice has launched a federal antitrust investigation into the Google Book Search settlement. The proposed project to digitize millions of books is part of a landmark settlement reached between Google and the Author’s Guild in October 2008.
Since the settlement was announced, several [...]
Stephen Best, APA National CEO
APA wants you to be aware of the Google Book Search Settlement and how it may be a benefit to you. If you are an author or publisher and the copyright holder of a book or of a book and the photographs in the book, this is valuable information for you. [...]
A message from Roy Blount Jr.:
A couple months after I became Authors Guild president in 2006, we met with Google to propose a settlement to our class-action lawsuit. The Guild had sued Google in September 2005, after Google struck deals with major university libraries to scan and copy millions of books in their collections. Many [...]