Google Books

Scope

 * Use this page to list sources related to the Google Books litigation and proposed class action settlement.

2010

 * Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick, 130 S. Ct. 1237 (2010) (holding district court has subject matter jurisdiction to approve a copyright settlement including unregistered works).
 * Gary Reback, Why the Technology Sector Should Care About Google Books, TechCrunch (Feb. 16, 2010).
 * Allie Bidwell and Emma Anderson, Professors File Petition Against Google Books Settlement, The Daily Californian (Jan. 28, 2010).
 * Lawrence Lessig, For the Love of Culture, The New Republic (Jan. 26, 2010).
 * Motoko Rich, Writers Groups Oppose Google Settlement, N.Y. Times (Jan. 6, 2010).

2009

 * Matthew Saltmarsh, Google Loses in French Copyright Case, N.Y. Times (Dec. 19, 2009).
 * David Pogue, Should e-Books be Copy-Protected?, N.Y. Times (Dec. 17, 2009).
 * Kenneth Crews, Google Books: Dude, Where’re My Inserts?, Columbia University Libraries, Copyright Advisory Office (Dec. 17, 2009).
 * Robert Darnton, Google and the New Digital Future. N. Y. Review Of Books (Dec. 17, 2009).
 * Brad Stone & Motoko Rich, Top Author Shifts E-Book Rights to Amazon.com, N. Y. Times (Dec. 15, 2009).
 * Motoko Rich, Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books, N.Y. Times (Dec. 13, 2009).
 * Fred von Lohmann, Google Book Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Censorship, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Dec. 3, 2009).
 * Brian Lavoie & Lorcan Dempsey, Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections, D-Lib. Mag. (Nov.-Dec. 2009).
 * Mike Harvey, Pirates Find Easy New Pickings in Open Waters of E-book Publishing, The Times (Nov. 21, 2009).
 * Ashby Jones, The Google Books Settlement: A Lawsuit Ripe for Congress?, Wall Street Journal (Nov. 17, 2009).
 * Fred von Lohmann, Google Book Settlement 2.0: Assessing Access, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Nov. 17, 2009).
 * Kenneth Crews, GBS 2.0: The New Google Book (Proposed) Settlement, Columbia University Libraries, Copyright Advisory Office (Nov. 17, 2009).
 * John Timmer, Google Book Settlement Revised, Criticized, Ars Technica (Nov. 16, 2009).
 * Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown, Google and the Copyright Wars: The Reach of Search Engines Should be Regulated By Congress, Not the Courts, Wall Street Journal (Nov. 12, 2009).
 * Lucian Parfeni, Google Books Introduces Magazine Directory, Softpedia (Nov. 6, 2009).
 * Pamela Samuelson, The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick?, The Economists' Voice (Nov. 2009).
 * Elaine Kurtenbach, Chinese group says Google violating copyrights, Ars Technica (Oct. 21, 2009).
 * John Timmer, Google book digitization prompts the EU to rethink copyright, Ars Technica (Oct. 19, 2009).
 * Ian Paul, Google Editions Embraces Universal E-Book Format, PCWorld (Oct. 16, 2009).
 * Andrew Albanese, Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement, Publisher's Weekly (Oct. 16, 2009).
 * Bill Synder, Is Google Too Big to Fail?, Infoworld (Oct. 15, 2009).
 * Motoko Rich, Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending, N.Y. Times (Oct. 14, 2009).
 * Ben Hallman, Scanning the Future of Google Books, Law.com (Oct. 13, 2009).
 * Pamela Samuelson, Google Books Is Not a Library, The Huffington Post (Oct. 13, 2009).
 * Erik Kirschbaum, Germany criticizes Google for copyright infringement, Reuters (Oct. 10, 2009).
 * Sergey Brin, A Library to Last Forever, N.Y. Times (Oct. 8, 2009).
 * Larry Neumeister, Judge Sets Deadline For Amended Google Book Deal, Silicon Valley News (Oct. 7, 2009).
 * Kevin Poulsen, Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles, Wired (Oct. 7, 2009).
 * Larry Neumeister, Judge sets deadline for amended Google book deal, SiliconValley.com (Oct. 7, 2009).
 * Miguel Heft, In E-Books, It’s an Army vs. Google, N.Y. Times (Oct. 6, 2009).
 * E.B. Boyd, Library Associations Release Breakdown of Google Books Settlement Filers, BayNewser (Oct. 5, 2009). Article links to PDF of full report.
 * Randall Stross, Will Books Be Napsterized?, N.Y. Times (Oct. 4, 2009).
 * Paul N. Courant, What’s at Stake in the Google Book Search Settlement?, The Economists' Voice (Oct. 2009).
 * Tim Wu, Save the Google Book Search Deal!, Slate (Sep. 29, 2009).
 * Tim Wu, Save the Google Book Search Deal!, Slate (Sept. 29, 2009).
 * Brandon Butler, The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing and What Are They Saying?, Ass’n Res. Libr. (Sept. 28, 2009).
 * Cecilia Kang, Update: AT&T Accuses Google of Violating Telecom Laws; Google Rejects Claims, Washington Post (Sep. 25, 2009).
 * Quentin Hardy, In Defense Of Google Books, Forbes (Sept. 25, 2009).
 * Pamela Samuelson, Google Book Settlement 1.0 Is History, Huffington Post (Sep. 24, 2009).
 * Associated Press, French publishers face Google in court over books, SiliconValley.com (Sep. 24, 2009).
 * Alexis Madrigal, A Writer’s Plea: Figure Out How to Preserve Google Books, Wired (Sept. 24, 2009).
 * Larry Neumeister, New deal sought in dispute over Google book plan, Associated Press (Sep. 22, 2009).
 * Tom Krazit, Parties seek Google Books hearing delay; new deal brewing, CNET News (Sep. 22, 2009).
 * Andy Reinhardt, Google Books Fight Heats Up in Europe, BusinessWeek (Sep. 22, 2009).
 * Michael Liedtke, Feds balk at Google book deal, hopes for changes, San Francisco Chronicle (Sep. 19, 2009).
 * Juan Carlos Perez, DOJ: Court should reject Google Book Search settlement, ComputerWorld (Sep 18, 2009).
 * Michael Liedtke, Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks, Siliconvalley.com (Sep. 17, 2009).
 * E.B. Boyd, EMI Opts Out of Google Books Settlement, BayNewser via Media Bistro (Sep. 16, 2009).
 * Diane Bartz, US Copyright Office opposes Google book settlement, Reuters (Sep. 10, 2009).
 * Diane Bartz, Google to share scanned books with rivals, Reuters (Sep. 10, 2009).
 * Diane Bartz, Google defends book deal as competitive, helpful, Reuters (Sep. 9, 2009).
 * Clint Boulton, Sides Line Up to Slam and Support Google Book Search, eWeek's Google Watch (Sep. 8, 2009).
 * Ryan Singel, Privacy Group Asks to Join Google Book Lawsuit As Deadline Approaches, Wired (Sep. 4, 2009).
 * Google's Big Book Case, The Economist (Sep. 3, 2009).
 * John Timmer, Amazon: Google book deal possibly illegal, definitely bad, Ars Technica (Sep. 3, 2009).
 * Michael Liedtke, Judge extends deadline to debate Google book deal, The San Francisco Chronicle (Sep. 3, 2009).
 * Geoffrey Nunberg, Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars, The Chronicle, (Aug. 31, 2009).
 * Tom Krazit, More questions than answers on Google Books, CNET (Aug. 29, 2009).
 * Robert McMillan, Privacy Missing From Google Books Settlement, PC World (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * James Temple, Google Book Search settlement plan questioned, SF Chronicle (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * Cade Metz, Google Book Search - Is it The Last Library?, The Register (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * Quentin Hardy, How Google Is Leveraging Our Culture, Forbes (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * Cade Metz, Internet Archive stares down Google book mine, The Register (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * Richard Koman, Librarians apply scrutiny to Google Books at Berkeley con, ZDNet (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * E.B. Boyd, UC Berkeley Librarian Wants Google Books to Nail Down Privacy Commitments, BayNewser (Aug. 28, 2009).
 * Andrew Richard Albanese, Unsettled: The PW Survey on the Google Book Settlement, Publishers Weekly (Aug. 24, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, Microsoft, Amazon join opposition to Google Books settlement, Ars Technica (Aug. 21, 2009).
 * James Shapiro, Books in Limbo, The Huffington Post (Aug. 19, 2009).
 * Pamela Samuelson, Why is the Antitrust Division Investigating the Google Book Search Settlement?, The Huffington Post (Aug. 19, 2009).
 * Lawrence Lessig, Google Book Search Settlement: Static Good, Dynamic Bad, Harvard Law School (July 30, 2009).
 * Ethan Zuckerman, Alex MacGillivray Explains the Google Books Settlement (July 21, 2009).
 * Google's Alexander Macgillivray on the Google Book Search Settlement, A Discussion Around the Google Book Settlement, YouTube (July 21, 2009).
 * Jacqui Cheng, Competition concerns lead to EU's Google Book Search hearing, Ars Technica (Jul. 21, 2009).
 * Reuters, EU sets hearing over Google books deal, Reuters (Jul. 20, 2009).
 * Miguel Helft, U.S. inquiry is confirmed into Google books deal, New York Times News (Jul. 3, 2009).
 * Ryan Singel, Critics: Google Book Deal a Monopoly, Privacy Debacle, Wired (June 2, 2009).
 * Andrew Richard Albanese, Deal or No Deal: What if the Google Settlement Fails?, Publisher's Weekly (May 25, 2009).
 * Ryan Singel, Libraries Warn of Censorship, Privacy Cost in Google’s Digital Library, Wired (May 5, 2009).
 * Pamela Samuelson,  Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement, O'Reilly Radar (Apr.17, 2009).
 * Lynn Chu, Google's Book Settlement Is a Ripoff for Authors, Wall Street Journal (Mar. 28, 2009).
 * Brewster Kahle, Economics of Book Digitization, Open Content Alliance (Mar. 22, 2009).
 * Frank Pasquale, Seven Reasons to Doubt Competition in the General Serarch Market, Madisonian.net (March 18, 2009).
 * Robert Darnton, Google & the Future of Books, N.Y. Review Books (Feb. 12, 2009).
 * Frank Pasquale, Beyond Competition: Preparing for a Google Book Search Monopoly, BLKnization (Feb. 4, 2009).

2008

 * Fred von Lohmann, The Google Book Search Settlement: A Reader’s Guide, Electronic Frontier Foundation (Oct. 31, 2008).
 * Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads, Slashdot (July 1, 2008).

2005

 * Patricia Schroeder, Google Cannot Rewrite U.S. Copyright Laws, Wall Street Journal (Oct. 25, 2005).
 * Eric Schmidt, Books of Revelation, Wall Street Journal (Oct. 18, 2005).

Documents filed with or by the Court

 * Settlement Agreement, Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc., No. 05 CV 8136 (Oct. 28, 2008).
 * Amended Settlement Agreement, Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc., No. 05 CV 8136 (DC) (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 13, 2009).
 * See The Public Index for all court documents related to this case.

Government Documents

 * Competition and Commerce in Digital Books: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 110th Cong. (2009).

Scholarship

 * Einer Elhauge, Why the Google Book Settlement is Pro-competitive, Journal of Legal Analysis (forthcoming 2010).
 * Matthew Sag, The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual 55 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev.(Forthcoming 2010).
 * Pamela Samuelson, Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace, 95 Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010).
 * Eugene Volokh, The Future of Books Related to the Law?, 62 Mich. L. Rev. 823 (forthcoming 2010).
 * Randal C. Picker, Assessing Competitive Issues in the Amended Google Book Search Settlement (Nov. 16, 2009).
 * James Grimmelmann, The Google Book Search Settlement: Ends, Means, and the Future of Books (April 2009).
 * Jonathan Band, The Long and Winding Road to the Google Books Settlement, 27 John Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 227 (2009).
 * Randal C. Picker, The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan Works Monopoly?, J. Compet. L. & Econ. (2009).
 * Peter S. Menell, Knowledge Access and Preservation Policy in the Digital Age, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 1013 (2007).
 * Hannibal Travis, Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors or Napster for Books?, 61 U. Miami L. Rev. 601 (2006).
 * David Bell, The Bookless Future, The Best of Technology Writing (Brendan I. Koerner ed., 2005).
 * Alicia Ryan, Contract, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Preservation, 10 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 152 (Winter 2004).
 * Ann Bartow, Electrifying Copyright Norms and Making Cyberspace More Like a Book, 48 Vill. L. Rev. 13 (2003).