Author\’s Guild

The long Cocky-gate nightmare is over

I’ve been wanting to write about Cocky-gate for some time now but the story – a row between self-published authors that degenerated into ridiculousness – seems finally over and perha

Supreme Court affirms Google Books scans of copyrighted works are fair use

A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former'

Hey Google, Free The Orphans

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/orphans-215x133.png" width="215" height="133" /> Once again, Google is facing <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/090428/p114#a090428p114">antit