A federal judge in California has dismissed a host of claims made by several groups of authors in a now consolidated lawsuit and gave the authors until March 13 to file an amended complaint. The suit’s core claim of direct infringement—which Open AI did not seek to dismiss—remains active. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
During a 30-minute Zoom press conference on July 22, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle urged the four major publishers suing over the organization’s book scanning efforts to consider settling the dispute in the boardroom, rather than the courtroom. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Seven publishers had sued the audiobook giant last July, claiming that its audio-to-text service Captions was unauthorisedAfter months of back and forth, Audible has settled in a copyright lawsuit with major publishers over its plan to introduce captions to their recordings, a proposal that the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-15 14:00:06 UTC ]
Book publishers and the leading audio book producer-distributor have agreed to a settlement in their copyright lawsuit Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2020-01-14 18:03:19 UTC ]
Amazon's audiobook company Audible has reached a settlement with a group of seven US publishers in the copyright lawsuit against the firm's Captions programme, according to a letter from Audible's legal team. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-13 21:30:27 UTC ]
Audible and a group of seven publishers are close to reaching a settlement in the copyright lawsuit against the firm's Captions programme, according to a letter from Audible's legal team. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-02 20:10:35 UTC ]
Sometimes the artists change, but the songs, well, they remain the same. A recent judge's decision to allow a copyright lawsuit over the opening bars of "Stairway to Heaven" to proceed against Led Zeppelin et al. brings to mind other twinned tunes, some of which resulted in legal battles and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
A U.S. judge has thrown out a long-standing copyright infringement case brought against Google by the Authors Guild, saying the company’s book-scanning project provides significant benefits to the public. Judge Denny Chin, formerly of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 15:35 The trustee of the estate of the late Willy the Wizard author Adrian Jacobs has paid £50,000 to the court, meaning his appeal and the copyright lawsuit against J K Rowling and Bloomsbury will continue. The full trial is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]