Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a nuke at the US Copyright Office this morning.” The message was from Elisa Shupe, a 60 ...

Google said Tuesday it had agreed to pay $125 million to settle two copyright lawsuits brought by book authors and publishers over its plan to digitize and show snippets of in-copyright books and to ...

The basic laws of copyright for e-books are the same as for any creative work. The author has copyright protection from the time he creates the book. The ease of copying and distributing e-books, ...

Google’s proposed book settlement with book authors and publishers, allowing the company to digitize and sell millions of books, makes a “mockery” of copyright ...

Google, which paints itself as a warrior in Internet regulatory and legal challenges, apparently prioritized self-interest by settling copyright infringement lawsuits over its book search engine.

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who claims Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, filed a federal copyright lawsuit claiming social media users posted free copies of her book online ...

You've heard Google's case for digitizing out-of-copyright books and its settlement with publishers and authors. And you've heard the opposition from the newly formed Open Book Alliance. The most ...

Google Inc. has settled lawsuits brought against it by major authors and publishers that argued that Google’s wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to ...

The coronavirus crisis has forced the closure of libraries around the world, depriving the public of access to millions of printed books. Books old enough to be in the public domain may be available ...

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has dedicated the 2024 World Book and Copyright Day to Prof Wole Soyinka, the literature Noble Laurette Soyinka, who is a ...

Wide-ranging agreement calls for Google to pay $125 million and in exchange gives the search giant rights to display chunks of in-copyright books, not just snippets Google has settled lawsuits brought ...