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Posted Monday, June 22, 2009

Authors Guild/AAP/Google Settlement Gives Authors, Publishers "Unprecedented... Control" Over Their Copyrights

Published in: PR Newswire


". . . .A month ago, the publishing trade media reported that Michael Healy, who is currently executive director of the non-profit Book Industry Study Group (BISG), had begun working with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers -- plaintiffs in two separate copyright infringement lawsuits brought in 2005 against search engine giant Google for its unauthorized digitization and use of in-copyright books as part of the Google Library Project -- on preparations for the establishment of the BRR as called for in the proposed settlement of those landmark cases. . ."

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