May 6, 2011 | Copyright, News
In offices from Manhattan to Mountain View, they’re picking up the scattered pieces of the Google Book Settlement. But like Humpty Dumpty in the old rhyme, can the Authors Guild, AAP and Google ever put the Settlement back together again? Next Tuesday, May 10, at 1...
May 23, 2010 | Digital Transformation, Podcasts
The flow of e-reader devices onto the consumer market has quickly shifted from a trickle to a flood. With consumers captivated by the iPad, nook, Kindle, Skiff Reader, and QUE, a massive surge in demand for digitally distributed content is inevitable. As a result,...
Feb 10, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, Podcasts
Ten years ago, when the “Big Bang” of online media gave birth to rudimentary e-readers, devices like the Rocket promised the moon but didn’t quite deliver. Today, the e-readers have proliferated in a kind of arms race underwritten by Sony, Amazon, Apple and even media...
Aug 30, 2009 | Copyright, Podcasts
Over the last several months, Copyright Clearance Center has produced programs to inform authors and publishers – in the US and around the world – about the choices they face over the proposed settlement in the landmark Google Books case. Because it is a class action...