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3 Mar 6:01 am
Paul McCallister sent along an e-mail from the Author's Guild to its members: Subject: Authors Guild v. Google Settlement: Official Notice Click here for your official notice of the $125 million settlement in ... to your works, including your right to
withdraw your work from the licensing programs described above. The important thing is to assert your rights. It's easiest to do so by setting up an account at
www.googlebooksettlement.com, the official settlement website. Once you're logged in, it's ...
16 Feb 10:43 pm
The Author's Guild will host an event tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City for its members to
meet and greet, as well as ... revenue and the Book Rights Registry will take a small fee, with the rest split 65% to the author and 35% to the publisher for in-print books. Some
$125 million will reportedly be distributed ... must agree in order to allow Google to scan the book and make it searchable. Out-of-print authors can also opt-out by going to the
Book Registry. MIPTC' ...
29 Oct, 2008 3:52 pm
... for everyone: The agreement also resolves lawsuits that were brought against Google in 2005 by a group of authors and publishers, along with the Authors
Guild and Association of American Publishers (AAP). While Google, the Authors Guild and the
... to get paid for their works. ... With this agreement, in-copyright, out-of-print books will now be available for readers in the U.S. to search, preview and buy online --
something that was simply unavailable to date. Most of these books are difficult, ...
3 Sep 12:37 pm
Letters are pouring in to the court on the Google Book Settlement case. We are also featuring an interview on the case with a publisher's viewpoint.
9 Apr 11:02 am
... to sleep by the rhythmic sound of his text-reader. At the conference, Chris presented about the World Blind Union's proposed treaty before the world Intellectual Property
Organization "for blind, visually impaired and other reading disabled ... group that represents visually impaired people, the National Federation for the Blind, held a protest outside
the headquarters of the Author's Guild. The protest, about which there are photos and a story here, was because of the pressure
brought to bear on ...
28 Feb 4:54 pm
As has been reported elsewhere, the Author's Guild claims that the Kindle 2 audio reader function infringes an
author's copyrights when that author has only authorized eBook distribution, and not specifically digital audio reading. As this informative Ars Technica
article explains, the viability of this argument turns on whether the digital reading amounts to [...]
17 Oct, 2007 4:32 am
... a strike. I really don't want a strike. […] Yet I am voting for this strike authorization, and I urge my fellow writers to do likewise. Why am I not hoping ... the 1980s,
before these shiny discs - now ubiquitous - were a glimmer in anyone's eye. That decades-old formula is such a thin slice of a thin slice that on each disc, ... proclaim victory.
Our membership - and the membership of our sister union, the Screen Actors Guild - believes that in 2007 this no longer cuts it. See also
Producers drop key ...
26 Aug 7:55 am
... 19, 2005 and alleging similar allegations; their settlement agreement appears as Attachment M to the Author's Guild
Settlement Agreement.) In connection with the settlement, the parties issued a Notice announcing the settlement. The Authors' ... now that the Settlement may be on the verge of
finalization, thereby implementing procedures by which information about the public's use of the database could be captured, it is critical to ensure that only the minimal
necessary information is collected about ...
11 Feb 2:13 pm
... saying "They don't have the right to read a book out loud. That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law." Does Aiken have ... sound being read aloud by the
Kindle 2 truly a "work" that is protected by copyright? If it's not a work to begin with, it can't be a derivative work. Copyright protection only ... derivative being embodied
for more than a mere transitory duration. Though creating audio, it would seem not to implicate the "audio right" that Aiken of the Author's Guild mentions ...
12 Nov 6:22 am
... page into a computer so character-recognition software can translate it for a text-to-speech program. But activating the Kindle's audio feature probably requires a sighted
helper, because the step involves manipulating buttons and navigating choices in menus ... (877) 547-1500 or visit [www.knfbreader.com]. The read-aloud feature of the Kindle was
initially disabled at the insistence of the Author's Guild which saw it as potentially eating into their profitable second-market
for audio books. But the ...
21 Nov, 2007 9:53 am
... buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this. -- Jeff Bezos, Open letter to
Author's Guild, 2002 You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise ... on the Digital Content. In
addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital
Content. ...
8 Apr 5:00 am
... Kindle 2 text-to-speech functionality unless expressly authorised by e-book rights holders. This followed accusation by the Authors' Guild that the product violated copyrights by creating derivative work and performance in public. However the issue hasn't gone ... its annual IT budget by
70% without having to reduce its capabilities by shifting from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu. The Gendarmerie's shift to open source software began in 2005. Aside of the great cost
savings achieved by shifting from ...
19 May 12:32 pm
... covered diligently by various journalists and citizen-journalists, including this author-the guild fell off the radar screen. It was
as though 5757 Wilshire, SAG's national headquarters, somehow disappeared into the black hole ... prohibits disparagement and raiding. The AFL-CIO is currently investigating, and
monetary fines are a possibility. The irony is that the guild, controlled (albeit narrowly) by a moderate majority (composed of the
Hollywood-based Unite for Strength faction coupled with ...
4 Jan, 2007 12:31 pm
... Bite of the Apple: A Guide To Terminating Transfers under Section 203 of the Copyright Act" which is found at the Authors Guild
website. For a cookbook/questionnaire type approach that has a useful discussion of how to figure out whether or when you ... master. Trusts and estates attorneys take note! The
Copyright Act has a number of succession provisions that trump the language of an author's will. Federal law is said to "preempt" state law in this area.Copyright
Litigation Handbook (West 2006) by ...
26 Apr, 2008 11:36 pm
... security project, said Yoo's legal reasoning puts "literally no limit at all to the kinds of interrogation methods that the president can authorize. [...] The whole
point of the memo is obviously to nullify every possible legal restraint on the president's wartime authority. The memo was meant to allow torture, and that's
exactly what it did." In the wake of the memo's release, the National Lawyer's Guild has called for Yoo's dismissal from
his ...
6 Nov, 2007 8:35 am
The Writer's Guild Strike, first in nearly 20 years, has not affected consumers noticeably. Perhaps most readers/consumers are oblivious
to the strike, as they may be oblivious to the glut of blog content generally. ... (Icelandic 13th century poet/historian) Prose Edda. (Check the Gutenberg Project). Sharing: April 16,
2007 New Yorker article (author John Colapinto) on an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe called Piraha*, who are monolingual and consider any language other than their own "crooked
head ...
16 Jul 9:27 am
[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: the inspiration for your author's alternative plan in case the whole legal profession fails to pan out.] On a serious note, a member of the
guild Bar passed away this week. Although we never knew Ferdinand Buckley, his profile is one that deserves a notable mention. A strong
supporter of Civil Rights, he officially resigned [...]
12 Feb, 2007 9:38 am
... course, tomorrow's topic is determining ownership of copyright. Given the complexity of that notion, I'm struck by the timeliness of today's NYT report on the
Hollywood spat between Robert Yari, one of the co-producers of Crash (last year's Best Picture Oscar) and the Producer's Guild
and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which refuse to recognize him with a producing credit (PG) or Academy Award (AMPAS). This dispute isn't the only one to break ...
19 Sep 4:53 pm
Not surprisingly, the U.S. Justice Department came out against the proposed Google Book settlement. DOJ advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
York that it should not accept the class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. DOJ encouraged the parties
involved to continue discussions to craft a resolution that all parties affected would be willing to ...
1 Oct, 2008 8:37 am
... makes his shape-shifting prose relevant to present-day concerns. Consider Alice's fall down the rabbit hole: The rabbit-hole … dipped suddenly down, so ... you, as Humpty
Dumpty once remarked. Seek an authorization and obtain it, and the next step is a vote of the guild's national Board - controlled
now by the newly-elected ... 6th, but Membership First still controls that board.) In other words, today's vote (if it takes place as the Hollywood Reporter predicts), is a
preemptive strike by Membership ...
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