Legal Documents: Justice Department’s Complaint and Proposed Settlement in...
Here are the legal documents the Justice Department filed today. Complaint Proposed Settlement
View ArticleScott Turow on Justice Department’s Proposed Settlement
The proposed settlement is a shocking trip through the looking-glass. By allowing Amazon to resume selling most titles at a loss, the Department of Justice will basically prevent traditional...
View ArticleScott Turow on CBC News: “difficult to comprehend Justice Department’s...
In an eight-minute segment on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s nightly CBC News that aired yesterday, Scott Turow discussed Amazon’s tactic of selling bestselling e-books at a loss to lock up a...
View ArticleScott Turow on Google Ruling: One Big Step Closer to Justice for US Authors
Our book-scanning lawsuit against Google cleared a major hurdle today, as Judge Denny Chin certified the class of U.S. authors. A copy of the decision is here. “We’re one big step closer to justice...
View ArticleThe Justice Department’s E-Book Proposal Needlessly Imperils Bookstores; How...
This summer, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote will review the Justice Department’s proposed settlement of its lawsuit alleging that five large publishers and Apple colluded in introducing agency pricing...
View ArticleLast call. Tell DOJ: Don’t help Amazon target booksellers
Comments on the Justice Department’s proposed e-book settlement are due Monday, June 25th. If you haven’t yet done so, consider writing a brief note to John Read (john.read@usdoj.gov) with your...
View ArticleGuild’s Tunney Act Filing to the DOJ
The Guild does not support the DOJ’s proposed e-book settlement. We believe it will allow Amazon to resume its predatory pricing practices, discouraging competition in the e-book marketplace. June 25,...
View ArticleSen. Schumer Op-Ed on E-Book Suit: DOJ should think again
Sen. Charles Schumer, in a strongly worded Wall Street Journal op-ed piece published today, called for the Justice Department to reconsider its e-book antitrust lawsuit, noting that “the suit could...
View ArticleAG Makes “Friend of the Court” Filing in DOJ Settlement Proceeding
Yesterday, the Authors Guild filed a motion and a proposed amicus brief with the Southern District Court of New York taking issue with the DOJ’s “narrow gauge” view of the book market in its response...
View ArticleCourt Approves Justice Department’s E-Book Proposal, Restoring pre-2010...
Judge Denise Cote approved the Justice Department’s controversial settlement with three major publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster — in a 45-page decision filed yesterday...
View ArticlePublishers Drop Mass Book Digitization Suit Against Google. Authors’...
A group of large U.S. publishers agreed to drop their lawsuit against Google over its mass-digitization of millions of copyright-protected books. In a press release issued this morning, the Association...
View Article“Orphan Works” Unresolved in HathiTrust Ruling
Wednesday evening, US District Court Judge Harold Baer ruled that the mass book digitization program conducted by five major universities in conjunction with Google is a fair use under US copyright...
View ArticleAuthors Guild Offices Remain Closed
Our offices are high and dry, but power has not yet been restored to them. (Our building is in the zone of Manhattan affected by Hurricane Sandy’s flooding of the Con Ed plant on East 14th Street...
View ArticleScott Turow on Penguin Random House
We’re back in business: power kicked in for our office Saturday morning; our email server came online late that night. Here’s our storm-delayed member alert on last Monday’s unsettling announcement...
View ArticleThe Justice Department’s E-Book Proposal Needlessly Imperils Bookstores; How...
This summer, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote will review the Justice Department’s proposed settlement of its lawsuit alleging that five large publishers and Apple colluded in introducing agency pricing...
View ArticleLast call. Tell DOJ: Don’t help Amazon target booksellers
Comments on the Justice Department’s proposed e-book settlement are due Monday, June 25th. If you haven’t yet done so, consider writing a brief note to John Read (john.read@usdoj.gov) with your...
View ArticleGuild’s Tunney Act Filing to the DOJ
The Guild does not support the DOJ’s proposed e-book settlement. We believe it will allow Amazon to resume its predatory pricing practices, discouraging competition in the e-book marketplace. June 25,...
View ArticleSen. Schumer Op-Ed on E-Book Suit: DOJ should think again
Sen. Charles Schumer, in a strongly worded Wall Street Journal op-ed piece published today, called for the Justice Department to reconsider its e-book antitrust lawsuit, noting that “the suit could...
View ArticleAG Makes “Friend of the Court” Filing in DOJ Settlement Proceeding
Yesterday, the Authors Guild filed a motion and a proposed amicus brief with the Southern District Court of New York taking issue with the DOJ’s “narrow gauge” view of the book market in its response...
View ArticleCourt Approves Justice Department’s E-Book Proposal, Restoring pre-2010...
Judge Denise Cote approved the Justice Department’s controversial settlement with three major publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster — in a 45-page decision filed yesterday...
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