Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book"

        The Authors Guild has recently issued a statement on Amazon.com's new
"Search Inside the Book" feature, which offers the ability to search for
text within books and then see actual pages from the books online. The Authors Guild has said, in part:

"We've reviewed the contracts of major trade publishers and concluded that
these publishers do not have the right to participate in this program without their authors' permission. We wrote to these publishers after we learned about the program in July. Most argued with our interpretation of their contract (no surprise there), but some have said that they would remove a work from the program if the author insisted."

        Is anyone aware of any authors who insisted that their works be removed from this program?

        (Note: This topic also is being discussed in the new copyright law forum at GigaLaw.com; see http://www.gigalaw.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59 )

Doug Isenberg
Attorney at Law, Needle & Rosenberg, P.C. (http://www.needlerosenberg.com) Editor & Publisher, GigaLaw.com (http://www.GigaLaw.com) // Get FREE daily technology law news @ http://www.GigaLaw.com/news // Received on Wed Oct 29 2003 - 02:25:24 GMT