Google Settlement Parties Pursue Separate Deals

After nearly three years stumping together to get the Google Book Settlement approved, the parties in the scuttled deal are headed for litigation. At a September 15 status conference, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed pretrial schedule that, if followed, could have the case fully briefed and ready for trial by the end of July 2012. But at the conference, attorneys told Chin that talks were progressingalthough differently for each partyraising the likelihood that the authors and publishers cases would soon be split. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]

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