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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Authors Guild

Authors Guild stories: 3 news summaries

Feds Step Up Antitrust Probe of Google Books Deal

Antitrust investigation focuses on Google's settlement with publishers

Jun 10, 09 2:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Justice Department investigators have intensified their probe into a deal Google made with publishers last year to put millions of books online, the Wall Street Journal reports. Publishers have been formally asked to provide information relating to the deal, which critics charge violates antitrust laws by giving Google an effective... More »

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Google • antitrust • copyright • Google Book Search • Authors Guild • Federal Trade Commission

(Newser) - Amazon has bowed to pressure from the Authors Guild and will allow authors and publishers to disable the controversial text-to-speech feature on its Kindle e-reader, the Los Angeles Times reports. Authors contend that the function essentially turns the e-book into an audio book, a contract violation. “They created... More »

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Kindle • copyright infringement • audio books • Amazon.com • ebooks • Authors Guild • e-readers

Google Settles Lawsuit Over Book Scanning for $125M

Settlement will make it easier to access out-of-print books

Oct 28, 08 2:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google has settled a lawsuit concerning intellectual property rights in its book-scanning initiative, Wired reports. Google will pay $125 million to authors who claimed their work was put online without their consent. The settlement also establishes a system where many out-of-print, but still copyrighted, books will be available to buy... More »

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Google • copyright law • copyright • book • book scanning • authors • Authors Guild • Association of American Publishers

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