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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 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 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 October 15, 2012 Karen Coyle	HathiTrust Lawsuit Decision Reaffirms Libraries in the Digital Age Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, in his decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decided firmly on the side of HathiTrust and, in particular, on its fair use defense.
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 October 7, 2014 Nancy K. Herther	European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations.
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.
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.
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
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.
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse	Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories.
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Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid	Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project.
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.
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.
Information Today August 29, 2011	University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works They will join the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of orphan works within the holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library.
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.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2005 Tim Beyers	Another Google Gaffe? Google has a big mission in organizing the world's information, and it takes more than good technology to do that. Till the company proves it understands this, it doesn't deserve your hard-earned investing dollars.
Searcher January 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse	Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content...
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 March 9, 2009 Carol Ebbinghouse	Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives.
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore	Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike	Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim?
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 October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners.
Information Today May 19, 2011	Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress.
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.
D-Lib October 2003 Geneva Henry	On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson	Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year.
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 June 28, 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse	Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work...
Information Today April 15, 2010 Nancy Herther	Google Sued for Copyright Infringement by Photographers and Visual Artists Google is accused of illegally scanning millions of copyrighted images in what the suit calls "the most widespread, well-publicized, and uncompensated infringement of exclusive rights in images in the history of book and periodical publishing"
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn	Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals.
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.
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.
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D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir	The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified.
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.
Information Today October 3, 2005 Barbara Quint	The Other Shoe Drops: Google Print Sued for Copyright Violation Google has been charged with violating copyright in its massive digitization program, Google Print for Libraries.
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Behnk et al.	Testing the HathiTrust Copyright Search Protocol in Germany: A Pilot Project on Procedures and Resources There are more than 11 million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The largest group of non-English books -- almost 600,000 titles -- is in German. For most of these German works, the copyright status is unknown.
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake	University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge.
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Yahoo Leads Literary Charge The Internet giant heads a consortium set on digitizing hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and making them available on the Web for almost universal access. The consortium will use an opt-in policy for publishers that has plagued Google's similar effort.
Information Today September 10, 2009 Susanne Bjorner	Europeana and Digitization: The Collaboration Is Only Beginning The recently released "Next Steps" planning communication from the European Commission (EC) gives Europeana just praise as a showcase for European cultural artifacts.
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.
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 June 18, 2007 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors.