Tag Archives: Legal issues

Taking Another Look at the Google Book Search Settlement

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Stephen Francoeur

An editorial in today’s New York Times notes that hearings will be held in the fall by a federal court that is looking into the settlement over Google Book Search that Google struck with the Author’s Guild and the American Association of Publishers.

For a good overview of the controversy over the Google Book Search settlement and the larger issue of the future of the book, this 29 May 2009 article by Sarah Glazer from CQ Researcher is great. You may also want to check out other Newman Library Idea Lab posts on Google Book Search.

Glazer, Sarah. “Future of Books” CQ Researcher 19.20 (2009): 473-500. CQ Researcher Online. Web. 29 July 2009.

“Google’s Big Plan for Books.” The New York Times, 29 July 2009. Web. 29 July 2009.

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Tools for Evaluating Fair Use and Copyright Status

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Stephen Francoeur

The ALA Office of Information Technology and Policy (OITP) announced last week on their blog, the Copyright Advisory Network, the release of two useful new tools:

These tools complement two others that the OITP developed in the past few years:

In addition, Baruch College just published this summer its Interactive Guide to Using Copyrighted Media in Your Courses.

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