Tag: GBS

  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation: ‘Digitial Books and Your Rights’.

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been lobbying and releasing for quite a period on the Google Book Settlement (GBS). I have carried their links on a number of sites regarding the oft-neglected issue of Consumer data privacy in relation to the GBS.Today, so, I am carrying a link to their latest information and to their site,…

  • The Google Book Settlement and the European Commission.

    I refer in short to the Google Book Settlement as the GBS throughout this series of posts, the links for which I will include at the base of this short piece. Yesterday there was a meeting of the European Commission (07/09/09) re the GBS which yielded what Irish Media refer to as concessions to European authors and publishing…

  • GBS: The Google Book Settlement , Resources and Links.

    I am publishing here the Poetry Ireland GBS (Google Book Settlement) pages, replete as they are with interesting factoids and links regarding how it effects authors. There is already a searchable quantity of links on Poethead regarding this issue which will be updated soon enough after the European Commission meets on the possible anti-trust elements on the 07/09/09. Poetry Ireland…