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InternetNews February 5, 2010	DoJ Still Wary About Google Book Settlement Federal attorneys say amended settlement still doesn't address fundamental antitrust and copyright concerns.
InternetNews August 21, 2009	Heavy Hitters Taking Swings at Google Book Search Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon joining new coalition aiming to block Google's settlement agreement with authors and publishers.
InternetNews November 16, 2009	Google Books Still Faces Criticism After Revision Google submitted to a federal court a revised version of a controversial settlement agreement with two author and publisher groups that would make millions of out-of-print books available online. Opponents of the deal argue that the changes are more cosmetic than substantive.
InternetNews April 29, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Google Defends Book Search Deal Google again finds itself on the defensive, trying to prove that it's not engaging in patently anti-competitive behavior.
InternetNews September 25, 2009	Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections.
Information Today December 21, 2009	Library Associations Raise Google Book Search Pricing Concerns to DOJ The library associations urge the Department of Justice to request the court to review the pricing of the institutional subscriptions to ensure that the economic objectives set forth in the settlement agreement are met.
Information Today October 11, 2012 George H. Pike	Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google.
Information Today March 31, 2011 George H. Pike	Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question.
InternetNews September 4, 2009	Google Books Scrutiny Mounts as Deadline Nears Google agrees to create privacy policy for its Book Search project amid FTC concerns.
InternetNews August 31, 2009	EU Commissioner Praises Google Books Project Official praise from overseas as controversial settlement with authors and publishers head to court in United States.
Information Today November 23, 2009 Barbara Quint	Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement Last week, when Google and its someday-soon ex-litigants filed a revised settlement agreement with the court, the media coverage proved equally feverish.
Information Today November 3, 2008 Barbara Quint	The Google Book Search Settlement: `The Devil's in the Details' For the last 3 years, the Google Book Search Library Project has operated under the shadow of lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and several members in a class action suit and by the Association of American Publishers.
InternetNews September 8, 2009	EU Officials Offer Tepid Praise for Google Books Commissioners call for reform of European copyright laws so that projects like Google's Book Search could be implemented swiftly and fairly.
Information Today August 6, 2009	Library Groups Advise DOJ on Google Book Settlement The groups requested the Antitrust Division to advise the court presiding over the Google Book Settlement to supervise the implementation of the settlement closely, particularly the pricing of institutional subscriptions and the selection of the Book Rights Registry board members.
Information Today October 30, 2008	Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Google, Books and 'Consumer Bandwidth' Wary optimism greets Google's settlement with publishers, authors. Bigger copyright challenge looms from Viacom; bookselling industry still needs a lifeline.
Information Today August 27, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance The countdown to the Oct. 7 court hearing on the Google Book settlement is on.
Information Today February 4, 2010	Stanford Signs Google Book Search Agreement, Endorses Court Settlement Stanford University has affirmed its support for the recently amended Google Book Search settlement agreement by expanding its earlier agreement with Google to digitize its library materials.
Information Today September 12, 2011 George H. Pike	Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 David Needle	Authors Cheer Google Book Search Deal Settlement for $125 million ends a long battle over Google's Library project and searching inside books.
Information Today September 24, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Three Publishers Settle in Apple Pricing Collusion Case "In a move that could reshape the publishing industry," The Wall Street Journal declares, "a federal judge has approved a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers over alleged collusion in the pricing of e-books."
Information Today December 19, 2011 George H. Pike	Class Action Filed in Google Books Case The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors.
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.
Information Today September 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther	Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement.
Information Today April 11, 2011	Library Copyright Alliance Releases Analysis of the Google Books Settlement Rejection The LCA comprises the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Information Today July 30, 2012 George H. Pike	Justice Department Responds to Ebook Lawsuit Objections The U.S. Department of Justice responded to public comments made objecting to the department's proposed settlement of price fixing charges levied against Apple, Inc., HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and four other publishers.
PC World August 5, 2002 Joris Evers	Microsoft Set to Act on Antitrust Settlement Software giant will carry out part of the proposed deal with the DOJ, even though judge has yet to approve it.
PC World November 1, 2001 Sumner Lemon	Microsoft, Government May Make a Deal Proposed antitrust settlement would give PC makers more control over Windows desktops; deal could be finalized on Friday...
Information Today September 24, 2009	Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement.
InternetNews June 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Microsoft Prevails in Antitrust Appeal The U.S. Court of Appeals denies Massachusetts' challenge to the Department of Justice's landmark antitrust settlement with Microsoft.
InternetNews August 26, 2009	Opponents Rally Against Google Book Search True to their word, a handful of the biggest players in tech have thrown their lot in with the Internet Archive to derail Google's settlement with authors and publishers concerning its Book Search project.
Information Today August 6, 2013 George H. Pike	DOJ Proposes Injunction on Apple Ebook Practices After having proven that Apple conspired with five major book publishers to fix the prices of ebooks, the Department of Justice seeks to prevent Apple from continuing its anticompetitive practices not only in its ebook sales, but also with its movie, music, and app sales.
Information Today June 6, 2011 Barbara Quint	University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify.
Information Today October 10, 2005 Carole Ebbinghouse	We've Not Seen the Last of The Copyright Class Action So far, none of the organizations involved in The Copyright Class Action and In Re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation or the copyright class action Web site have a press release or any mention of the final approval of the settlement by the court on Sept. 30.
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Touts Microsoft's Settlement Compliance Status report of Microsoft's settlement with the Department of Justice checks up on its progress, including complaints about a licensing program.
Information Today November 19, 2013 George H. Pike	Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project.
Searcher January 2009 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect.
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.
InternetNews August 31, 2006 Roy Mark	DoJ, Microsoft Sign Up For Two More Years The Department of Justice and Microsoft put the final legal touches Wednesday on their May agreement to extend by two years the communications protocol licensing program portion of Microsoft's antitrust agreement with the government.
InternetNews September 24, 2010	DoJ, Tech Heavies Settle Improper Hiring Case Antitrust authorities at the Department of Justice reach agreement with Silicon Valley luminaries including Google, Apple and Intel over untoward agreements not to poach one another's top talent.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Anders Bylund	You Can't Always Get What You Want, Google But if you try sometimes, ask Mick Jagger what you might get. This week, a federal judge slapped down the proposed settlement between Google's book-scanning project and the gaggle of publishers who oppose it.
Information Today August 14, 2000 Paula J. Hane	National Writers Union Reaches Agreement with Contentville; Freelance Writers Make Significant Progress in Royalty Compensation NWU reaches agreement with Contentville site on compensation of freelance writers for use of copyrighted works.
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
Information Today April 4, 2005 Barbara Quint	Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors.
InternetNews July 21, 2004 Roy Mark	DOJ Makes Compliance Visit to Microsoft Investigators make scheduled check-up trek to Redmond to make sure the company is complying.
InternetNews June 20, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Relents - Will Make Vista Google-Friendly Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows Vista's desktop search capability in the wake of antitrust accusations by Google made public last week.
Information Today January 25, 2010	Open Book Alliance Urges a Public Guardian for Digital Book Database--Not Google The Open Book Alliance has asked Congress to help establish a digital book database that provides greater access to books, respects the rights of authors and publishers, and doesn't grant undue power to any single company.