APA ALERT: The Google Book Search Settlement

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.  [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: insideScoop | 4 comments

Google Lawsuit and ASCAP DB

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 [...]

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: insideScoop | Leave a comment