Saturday, September 26, 2009

Judge delays Google books hearing

A New York judge has put Google's vision of creating the world's biggest digital library on hold.
Judge Denny Chin postponed a fairness hearing set for next month that was meant to address a settlement between Google and authors and publishers.
The $125m agreement, worked out last year, has effectively been sent back to the drawing board by the judge.
The class action case would let Google distribute and sell digital versions of out of print, copyrighted books.
It has been criticised because some say it would give Google too much power to set book prices.

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