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4 Jun 2020, 2:15 pm by Eileen McDermott
In the first panel, representatives for big tech and academia were juxtaposed with successful artist Don Henley of the Eagles and prolific author and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston—with tech arguing that changes to the DMCA to strengthen copyright protections would cripple the internet as we know it, and Henley and Preston painting a grim future for musicians and authors if the system is not significantly overhauled. [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 6:19 pm
This is a very useful authority for the following points: the jurisdiction of the Patents County Court in trade mark infringement and passing-off claims; the basis for assessment of damages for trade mark infringement and passing-off; the basis to be applied where there is no loss of a sale; and the procedure to be followed when the damages awarded exceed the [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 1:32 pm by Jonathan Bailey
We have news that the Authors Guild has appealed the Google Book Search ruling, RIAA joining the movie studios in suing Megaupload and news that Kim Dotcom may be getting some of his stuff back. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 2:16 pm by Jonathan Bailey
We start off with news that the “World’s Greatest Detective” may be in the public domain, evidence being released against Kim Dotcom and news that the Authors Guild is appealing its case against Google over Google Book Search. [read post]
27 Sep 2023, 6:00 am by Ryan J. Farrick
The lawsuit broadly claims that OpenAI and its best-known product, ChatGPT, are almost wholly reliant on "systematic theft on a large scale. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 5:18 pm by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Authors and authors’ groups in the US, Australia, Canada and Britain are suing five universities – the universities of Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Indiana and Cornell – in a bid to stop the creation of online libraries comprising up to seven million copyright-protected books they say were scanned without authorization. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 1:36 am
The Author's Guild threatened legal action against Amazon because the Kindle's read-aloud function "is not paying anyone for audio rights". [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 3:28 pm
This is a revised complaint.P's & A's = Memorandum of Points and Authorities. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 11:55 am by Jonathan Tycko
Guild Mortgage Company (Guild) of San Diego, California, agreed to pay the U.S. government $24.9 Million to settle allegations that Guild violated the False Claims Act by knowingly breaching material program requirements when underwriting and originating mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA). [read post]
20 Feb 2016, 3:30 am by Ray Dowd
   The general public consensus was that publishers had failed to keep works in print, failed to support authors, and that Google was a savior to both authors and the publishing industry.The Authors Guild's (well-written) take from https://www.authorsguild.org/authors-guild-v-google-questions-answers/On October 16, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reached a decision in our copyright infringement… [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 7:06 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Image via WikipediaIf the 23-page complaint, The Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. [read post]
11 Jul 2020, 10:48 am by Ray Dowd
Kaffaga on behalf of amicus curiae the Authors Guild, the Dramatists Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors and former Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman.www.dunnington.com Copyright law, fine art and navigating the courts. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 11:15 am by Alec Pronk
This week in Other Barks & Bites: CAFC says reasonable expectation of success findings can be implicit when combined with other analyses; Yale University settles a ketamine patent royalty dispute with the Department of Veterans Affairs for $1.5 million; the USPTO announces Mary Fuller as the new director of the Silicon Valley Regional Office; a group of famous authors files a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the generative AI company of copyright infringement. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 11:15 am by Alec Pronk
This week in Other Barks & Bites: CAFC says reasonable expectation of success findings can be implicit when combined with other analyses; Yale University settles a ketamine patent royalty dispute with the Department of Veterans Affairs for $1.5 million; the USPTO announces Mary Fuller as the new director of the Silicon Valley Regional Office; a group of famous authors files a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the generative AI company of copyright infringement. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 11:34 am by Kevin Smith, J.D.
  That settlement seems to be completely dead, but the prospect of monetizing orphan works put dollar signs in the eyes of the Authors Guild. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 3:59 pm
Three years after it was filed, much of that time existing in apparent dormancy, the copyright infringement case filed by the Authors Guild against Google Book Search (f/k/a Google Print) has settled. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 6:35 pm by Christina D. Frangiosa
On August 14, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted Google's request for permission to appeal the Southern District of New York's certification of two classes of plaintiffs in the Authors Guild v. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 9:33 am
Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers have asked the court to once again postpone the Fairness Hearing in the Google Books Settlement in order for these parties to consider and respond to the points made by the Justice Department in their Statement of Interest. [read post]
1 May 2012, 3:15 pm by Philip Cable
It stalled when the Authors Guild and a group of five publishers alleged copyright infringement. [read post]