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Press release: “…Internet Archive has successfully advocated for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA prohibits circumvention of technological measures employed by or on behalf of copyright owners to protect their works (“access controls”). Specifically, 17 U.S.C. §1201(a)(1)(A) provides, in part, that No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively …
Follow up to September 18, 2006 – posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute: Google defends against Belgian newspaper copyright case – Launches spirited defense of caching, summarizing, fair use Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups – They objected to how it indexes and displays their content on Google News
Inside Google Books Search blog: “…we’ve just launched a bunch of new features and a whole new interface to make your online book experience better. First, we made it easier to find books you may be interested in by improving the “About this book” page. If you’re a bookworm looking for your next book to …
Press release: “November 13, 2006 – Google Inc. announced today that it has closed its acquisition of YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos. In connection with the acquisition Google issued an aggregate of 3,217,560 shares, and restricted stock units, options and a warrant exercisable for or convertible into …
Kahle v. Gonzales will be argued by Larry Lessig on November 13, 2006. “In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) are unconstitutional under the Free …
From the Official Google Blog, November 3, 2006: “The world’s libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we’ve taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number of public domain books that …
Wall Street Journal free feature: YouTube Finds Signing Rights Deals Complex, Frustrating Financial Times: Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat Related news: eWeek.com Google Watch blog: “Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and sales firm, filed suit this week against YouTube in Ohio federal district court, arguing they’ve incurred dramatic …
Follow-up to September 18, 2006 posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute, reports that Begian news rights representative Copiepresse is continuing its breach of copyright action against Microsoft and will target Yahoo in future.
Press release: “Together, the UW-Madison and Google will expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Some wonderful examples from their collection can be found here. The combined 7.2 million holdings of these libraries comprise one of the largest collections of historical …
Following up on articles by Jonathan Band published on LLRX.com – The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, and The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project – news from Bloomberg: “Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project.”
Press release: “Working together, Google and the University Complutense of Madrid will digitise the university’s hundreds of thousands of public domain works, so that anyone, at anytime will be able to view, browse, read, and even download the full texts from the library’s historic and special collections. The library of the Complutense University of Madrid …
Follow-up to September 18, 2006 posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute, this press release from the World Association of Publishers, September 22, 2006: “In the week that Belgian publishers won their case against Google for illegally publishing content without prior consent, a coalition of print media associations are preparing to launch a …
