Google Books – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Chocolate Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Ron Coleman

How else to describe a post (this one) that combines two of our favorite obsessions — Google and fair use? Business Week online reports that […]

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Authors Guild v. Google: Judge Chin’s decision in favor of Google Books

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Ron Coleman

Anyone looking for the Author’s Guild v. Google decision on the Southern District of New York website is going to have a hard time: It’s […]

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Guest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Gregory Winsky

When copying 20,000,000 books without permission is not copyright infringement Jim Bouton’s last pitch to Google wasn’t Ball Four, at least according to the […]

Distribution systems

Google Books settlement takes it on the Chin

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Ron Coleman

I raised questions about the Google Books settlement ages ago. Now some of them have been answered, and Judge Denny Chin’s answer is “no”: While […]

Distribution systems

Fair Googling a la Mode

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Ron Coleman

Via the In the Agora blog, an update, with useful links, on the suit against Google by Agence France-Presse. Best link is to this article […]

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The Google Library Project and the dog that didn’t bark — yet

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Nicholas Wells

It would have been fascinating to read the court opinion ending the lawsuit by a group of major publishers against Google. But we won’t get […]

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One publisher’s take on the Google Books decision

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Sanford Gray Thatcher

Dear Judge Chin, I have just read your decision to grant Google summary judgment in this case and I must express my disappointment. You have […]

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The Google exception?

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Ron Coleman

Way back when the Google Books issue first burst forth, I expressed considerable skepticism that their plan to scan the universe of books and put […]

A new use for Google Book Search

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Ron Coleman

And a whole new set of opportunities for copyright lawyers. Hat tip to Bizzy Blog.

Literature

What is a book?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Ron Coleman

Reuters reports that publishers are going to allow book browsing on their websites. Amazon, of course, started this trend. Obviously they believe they will sell […]

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Google Books debate

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Ron Coleman

It’s all Google, all the time in our world. (I know that because I did a Google search of our world.) So, naturally, what’s the […]

Google Gored by Literary Lions

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Ron Coleman

Reuters “news service” reports that the Authors Guild and a number of American writers are suing Google Inc. in federal District Court in New York […]

Google and the bookmakers

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Ron Coleman

Remember the Google book-scan lawsuit? No, we hadn’t either; we hardly even remember books. But thanks to Jaded Topaz we’re reminded, as she sends along […]