A federal judge rejected Google’s $125 million class-action settlement with authors and publishers, delivering a blow to the company’s ambitious plan to build the world’s largest digital library and bookstore. Full article
Archive of posts tagged Law
Art and Justice
As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says [...]
FYI: Ted Kennedy and visual art
So few of the tributes to Ted Kennedy have mentioned that he was a champion of the arts, including authoring the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), that I thought I would make a note of this. VARA gives artists the power to control reproduction of their work and to retain rights even if the work [...]
