Sunday, June 14, 2009

Trust-bustin' Google Books

The U.S. Justice Department has made formal requests for information from some of the big whigs involved in the case against Google Books, which groups such as the Authors Guild have accused of being a trust and violating copyright laws.

Google Books is trying to settle for sharing its earnings with the authors and publishers for using the out of print books.

Click on the headline to view the entire NYTimes article.

4 comments:

Piyush said...

Blondone where you be at. This is my calling you out.

Anonymous said...

Heh. "Big whigs." I can't decide if it's a typo, or funny though very subtle commentary on the totalitarian tendencies of Google.

Blondone said...

Haha, I thought about "wigs" and then thought, nah, let's add something in their for one of our sole readers, haha.

Blondone said...

Also, hello, Piyusshhhh.