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- Facebook settlement: Kill Beacon, pay $9.5 million into fund to promote online privacy
- A class action suit over Facebook's controversial Beacon program today received preliminary approval PDF by a U.S. District Court, bringing an end to the Beacon service and giving the company an option of clearing the matter without long - and expensive - court proceedings. The proposal calls...
- Tags: Facebook, Online Privacy, Settlement, Class Action, Beacon, Class Action Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Parties pull Google Books settlement, promise a version that meets Justice approval
- A massive development in Google Books: the parties have asked the court to vacate the upcoming hearing date so they can redraft their settlement to satisfy antitrust concerns. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Settlement, Litigation, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Justice Dept. devastates Google Books settlement, as the parties rush to the back rooms
- The Justice Department has issued a scathing critique of the Google Books settlement, and Google and the publishers and authors are desperately trying to save this deal. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Google's book settlement: Here comes the DOJ and likely deal tweaks
- The Department of Justice became the latest party to file its concerns about Google's book settlement and it appears the search giant will have to either make tweaks or allow the feds to poke around. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Give Google a break!
- Yes, I said it. Give the kajillion-dollar company a break. This book scanning thing is getting completely out of hand. I want Google to make money. I want them to make lots of it because that means that all of the services I use for free...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Microsoft: Google Books is illegal 'joint venture,' not settlement
- M$ is enviousThey could not embrace and extend, so it sound like sour grapes.oh the tragedy..... Sounds like a win-win for everyone. I am quite suprised they came up with a deal that didnt transfer money.I wonder if they pulled the old.. virutal library card. The one that...
- Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Book, settlement
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Microsoft: Google Books is illegal 'joint venture,' not settlement
- In its objection, Microsoft paints Google Book deal as a joint venture designed to stifle competition, not a settlement between opposing parties. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Venture, Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- EPIC seeks to intervene in Books settlement, says privacy policies are no solution
- EPIC has asked to intervene in the Google Books settlement, saying the public needs an advocate for our interests. The deal lacks privacy protections and would allow Google to mix the particularly sensitive book data with web search and other data Google collects on users. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., EPIC, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Sniping over Google Books Settlement intensifies
- Google details its privacy safeguards behind its book settlement. The Open Book Alliances says "trust us" isn't a good privacy policy. Meanwhile, supporters of the Google Book Settlement have knocked Amazon's complaints about the deal. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Open Book Alliances, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Amazon: Congress, not Google, should make digital book policy
- In its stinging rebuke PDF of the Google Books settlement, Amazon lays out the full, horrendous ramifications of the deal: it rewrites copyright law, creates a monopoly in perpetutity, short circuits debate on the issue and takes the matter out of Congress' hands. Here's the major points...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Congress, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Amazon knocks Google Book Settlement; Opposition (and some support) lines up
- Amazon panned Google's book settlement with the Author's Guild saying that the deal "restrains competition" and "usurps the role of Congress in legislating solutions" as copyright and new technologies collide. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Amazon.com Inc., Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
- You've heard Google's case for digitizing out-of-copyright books and its settlement with publishers and authors. And you've heard the opposition from the newly formed Open Book Alliance. The most spirited take on the out-of-copyright book issue may have come from Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Book Search, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Open Book Alliances opens up assault on Google's book settlement
- The Open Book Alliance, a group of library associations, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft, have officially unveiled an effort to derail Google's $125 million class action settlement with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors' Guild. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Settlement, Class Action, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Can Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon help scuttle Google's book settlement?
- Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are reportedly joining the Internet Archive and other non-profit groups to dismantle Google's book settlement with publishers and authors. According to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and others, the group of tech giants and library groups will be co-led by Gary...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Settlement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- DOJ confirms Google Books investigation
- Is the Justice Department actually investigating the Google Books deal? Yes, the department confirmed to the federal judge reviewing the class action settlement. It is looking into whether the deal violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, The New York Times reports. In a letter to the judge,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Europeans vote to give Google Book deal a hard time
- More trouble (read: good news) in the Google Books settlement. EurActiv reports that EU ministers will recommend the European Commission investigate the implications of the settlement on European authors. A source told the site: Several member states will raise concerns during the meeting, but it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Germany, Settlement, Author, Member State, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Jammie Thomas case heads for retrial
- Jammie Thomas and the recording industry have failed to come to a settlement in the now-infamous case of Capitol Records v. Thomas, Wired reports. That shouldn't come as a surprise since Thomas has said she would never settle. Her lawyer, Brian Toder, merely said: ...
- Tags: Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Authors get extension in Google Books Settlement
- A victory for authors in the Google Book Deal: Judge Denny Chin has extended the deadline ( by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Author, Books, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?
- Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challenge
- OIN: TomTom settlement is no win for Microsoft, expect challengeI don't get itFor all the hootin' and hollerin' about this being an attack on Linux, I just don't see what the big deal is. Microsoft signed a license agreement with Tom Tom on a couple patents that cover parts of...
- Tags: Litigation, Linux, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, settlement, OIN, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
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