Tag Archives : Authors Guild

Google signed an agreement with a major publisher of books in France, Hachette Livre, to sell and to scan books sold out, which ensures the Hachette extensive control over the price and content. The agreement, announced Wednesday, covers about 50 000 French titles, including literature, scholarly works and reference books. The arrangement is symbolically [...]

Even after a proposed settlement plan doctored by Google Inc. with the publishers, in regards to the publishers, the U.S Department of Justice has still expressed its skepticism for the deal and has stated that, even with the new agreement, it feels that, Google would still be able to gain unfair advantage against its competitors. In November 2009, [...]

Google received formal warning of the Department of Justice of the United States that investigators of the section of defense of the competition are evaluating the agreement of the company with publishers for online distribution of millions of books. Under the agreement firmed in October gone by Google with Authors Guild and the Association of American [...]

Almost four years ago, Google Inc. came into a lot of trouble when a majority of librarians, publishers and authors backed by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers filed lawsuits accusing Google of copyright infringement. The whole fuss started when Google announced that it would be running an all new ‘library project‘ [...]