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 ...

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.

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, ...

3. The Changing Face of Books: From Paper to Screens The Journey from Paperbacks to E-books: There was a time when the scent of a fresh book and the rustle of pages were unmatched. Today, digital ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google’s ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet. On the one hand, Sanfilippo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...