Unraveling The Rejection

CCC’s Google Book Settlement Webinar series continues: As you very likely know, on March 22, Judge Chin issued his long awaited opinion in the Google Book Search settlement proceedings, rejecting the Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) proposed by the Authors...

BTB #125: For Lunch, A Buffet of Trade Publishing Insights

Publishers Lunch creator Michael Cader last week visited CCC’s office to address a gathering of rightsholders. The trade book publishing guru-in-chief dished out reviews on the latest news on the Google Book Settlement case, and offered his take on vooks, instabooks,...

BTB #116: What You Should Know About Google Settlement

Originally recorded on June 22nd, copyright attorney and publishing expert Lois Wasoff reviews important developments regarding the proposed settlement in the landmark class action lawsuit. In a previous session, Wasoff outlines for publishers, authors and literary...

BTB #115: Survey Finds Google Settlement ‘Unsettled’

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...

Google Settlement News Update

With six weeks remaining for rightsholders to choose whether to opt in or out from the historic Authors Guild/AAP/Google settlement, a spokesman for one of the plaintiffs tells Copyright Clearance Center that “explaining the settlement agreement, and indeed,...