Top five shifts in Internet law in 2014. Internet law is always changing.
Here’s my impressionistic list of five of the most significant 2014 shifts affecting businesses that operate in the Internet space. David Letterman will be off the air soon, so I won’t follow the Letterman list format – I’m going to start at the top: 1. Cell phone privacy. The Supreme Court’s April 2014 ruling, in Riley v.
A Kat's 2013 Copyright Awards. Authors Guild appeals Google Books decision. Google Books = fair use. French Publishers Forge Deal With Google, Breaking Ranks With Eu. Google Files motion to dismiss plaintiffs. New York judge rules against Google books se. Amended Settlement Agreement (in English) Opt-in Settlement in the Works. What is the Google Books Settlement? Google settment rejected by court. Google/Hachette accord. US authors seek damages in Google Books copyright row. Authors are asking a New York judge to order Google to pay them $750 (£479) for every book the search giant scanned without authorisation as part of its controversial Google Books programme.
The litigation has been running since 2005, when Google began to digitise millions of books without permission from authors to huge protests. A proposed $125m (£79) settlement was rejected last year when judge Denny Chin ruled that Google's plans had gone "too far", and now the legal wrangling is kicking off again. A motion for summary judgment filed in late July, and made public at the end of last week, shows US writers body The Authors Guild asking the court to rule that Google's "unauthorised reproduction, distribution, and display of in-copyright books are not 'fair uses'" under copyright law.