Google’s effort to create a digital library is once again under legal scrutiny. The Open Book Alliance issued a study detailing how the proposed Google Book Settlement violates international laws and treaties. The report, compiled by notable intellectual property attorney Cynthia Arato, notes, if approved, the settlement would grant Google automatic rights to exploit digitally [...]

The China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) is the latest in a string of domestic and international groups to criticize Google’s effort to create a digital library. While it hails from a country that flippantly enforces international copyrights, the group is the first Chinese entity to publicly criticize the Google project and also encourages drastic [...]

A group of authors and publishers, represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson clinic), filed an objection last week to the proposed Google Book Search lawsuit settlement. The coalition of [...]