American Library Associations Publish Summary of Google Books Litigation Court Filings

The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries have put together a document entitled The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying?

It provides a summary of the hundreds of filings that have been submitted to the federal district court in New York that is presiding over the controversial Google Books Settlement.

The Google Books Settlement is intended to put an end to a class action lawsuit brought against Google by organizations representing authors and publishers who objected to the search giant’s mass scanning of in-copyright books.

Earlier Library Boy posts about the dispute include:

• Google Settles Lawsuit With U.S. Authors and Publishers (October 28, 2008)
• Google Book Scanning Project Settlement: More Reaction and Analysis (February 23, 2009)
• Association of American Publishers on Recent Google Book Project Settlement (February 24, 2009)
• Controversy Heats Up Over Google Book Search Settlement (August 24, 2009)
• How To Find Court Filings in the Google Book Settlement (September 8, 2009)
• Google Book Search Bibliography (September 14, 2009)
• Google Book Scanning Court Hearing Postponed (September 22, 2009)