Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon – New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are now test markets for the new partnership between Barnes & Noble and Google that promises same-day delivery to customers. The approach is more personalized, with couriers who actually go to the ... more >
Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of copyright – So the Conan Doyle estate has asked the US Supreme Court to stay the 7th Circuit’s recent decision. Fortunately, SCOTUS has already rejected the motion. There is a case to be made for the aggressive protection of an author’s intellectual property rights ... more >
Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation – So this is the one about how the Author’s Guild sued the HathiTrust and lost. The HathiTrust — comprised of more than 80 academic and research institutions — created a digital library (the HathiTrust Digital Library) and then digitized more than ten million ... more >
A Linguist Explains What Old-School British Accents Sounded Like – This is a great article that challenges the widely accepted assumption that English folks from, say, the 17th and 18th centuries spoke what we now think of as an English accent (also known as RP, aka Received Pronunciation) instead of ... more >
Founder of Just-Launched Authors Alliance Talks to PW – Into the mammoth-sized vacuum created by the current leadership of the Authors Guild comes a new organization called the Authors Alliance. Set to launch on May 21st, this organization, founded by Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Professor of Law, is setting itself ... more >
Authors Guild asks court to rule against Google – From the files of ‘give it up already,’ the Authors Guild has filed an appeal with the 2nd Circuit, obviously unhappy with Judge Chin’s dismissal of their suit against Google. The Authors Guild is claiming that Google is engaging in anti-competitive ... more >