Showing posts with label across the board changes to copyright law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label across the board changes to copyright law. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Amazon.com Says Congress Should Address Google Book; Bloomberg.com, 9/2/09

Susan Decker and David Glovin via Bloomberg.com; Amazon.com Says Congress Should Address Google Book:

"Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, told a U.S. court that Congress, not Google Inc., should be responsible for establishing rules on how to deal with digital copies of books.

An agreement Google reached last year with some U.S. publishers and authors “invades the prerogatives of Congress and attempts to legislate a private solution to a problem that can only truly be solved with across-the-board changes to the copyright law that affect everyone,” Amazon.com said in a court filing yesterday that set out its legal arguments for opposing the settlement...

The case is Authors Guild v. Google Inc., 05-cv-8136, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan)."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aPt6KIFwLzH8