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Google Book Settlement

The Department of Justice has concerns. (via)

Don’t Be Evil.

Further to my earlier post about the Google Book Settlement, I registered on their site and discovered that they’ve scanned my poetry book The Glaze from Breaking (there’s a “yes” in the column entitled “Digitized without authorization on or before May 5, 2009″). They also think it’s “commercially available” i.e. in print, even though it [...]

legal neepery of interest only to copyright holders and their publishers

The Amended Settlement filed in Authors Guild v. Google creates a non-profit Book Rights Registry governed by authors and publishers to oversee the settlement on their behalf. A Fairness Hearing has been scheduled for February 18, 2010; authors have until January 28, 2010 to opt out of the agreement. The SFWA is objecting to (among [...]