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Background and Update On Google Book Search and the Proposed Settlement
gbs-summary-for-board.pdf
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Letter to Daralyn J. Durie, Esq. re: Privacy Concerns about the Google Book Settlement (Oct. 6, 2009)
Letter to attorneys involved in the Google Books Settlement case written to urge Google to include enforceable privacy protections along with the amended settlement agreement. lt-gbs-group-privacy06oct09.pdf
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The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying?
The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have prepared this document to summarize in a few pages of charts some...
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Letter to Lamar Smith and John Conyers re: Hearing on Competition and Commerce in Digital Books (Sept. 4, 2009)
ALA, ARL, and ACRL express views on the market for digital books, in particular the proposed settlement of the litigation concerning the Google Book Search service. competition-digi-books-letter-2009.pdf
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Supplemental Library Association Comments on the Proposed Google Books Settlement
The American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (the Library Associations) submit these comments to address developments relating to the proposed...
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Letter to Faculty re: Google Books Settlement
A generic letter for faculty informing them of the implications of the October 2008 proposed Google Books settlement. ltr_google-books-faculty.doc
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A Guide for the Perplexed Part II: The Amended Google-Michigan Agreement
On May 20, 2009, Google and the University of Michigan (Michigan) entered into an amendment that expanded the 2004 agreement that allowed Google to scan books in the Michigan library...
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Research Library Issues, no. 264 (June 2009)
RLI issue 264 includes the following articles: ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry Learning...
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The Authors Guild, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., et al., v. Google Inc.
Library association comments on the proposed settlement. ag-v-google-comments04may09.pdf
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ALA, ARL, ACRL Host Meeting of Experts to Discuss Google Book Search Settlement
Members of library community discussed the implications of the Google Book Search settlement in a meeting hosted on February 9, 2009, in Washington, DC, by the American Library Association Washington...
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