Google has responded to critics of its plan to make millions of books available online, that many of the problems could be resolved if we had a rational copyright law, writes James Boyle

As TechCrunch reports, following the $125 million dollar settlement with the American Authors Guild last October, the Google Book Settlement site is now live, enabling copyright holders to make claims for scanned books available online through Google Book Search. Authors, publishers, and other...

The Sunday Times investigates Google’s tax arrangements in the UK. Well, actually, they have Richard Murphy read the accounts for them. In a nutshell when you buy an ad from Google you do so from Google Ireland rather than Google UK. Thus tax on any profits ends up in the Irish Treasury rather than the UK

Increased political wrangling over digital piracy and internet regulation has forced ministers to back away from a proposed sweeping power to change copyright law

Google's ambitious plans to scan millions of books and make them readable through its search engine suffered another blow after France said it would formally oppose the US settlement that Google needs to circumvent complex copyright issues

An abomination that should be taken out and shot. Along with those that passed it. The ruling, dubbed “Cliff’s Law” after the veteran pop star waged a long-running campaign to have the copyright period extended, will prevent his material from the 1960s from falling out of copyright. Some earlier recordings that have fallen out of

The digitisation of books is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in Brussels. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding is supporting the efforts of Google, the main private actor in the field, while Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called a hearing on copyright violations committed by Google Books in Europe.

The digitisation of books is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in Brussels. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding is supporting the efforts of Google, the main private actor in the field, while Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called a hearing on copyright violations committed by Google Books in Europe, following complaints of many member states.

The government will this week press Google to block more copyright-infringing websites in its search results, opening a new front in the UK's battle against online piracy

Four of the world's largest internet companies have urged Lord Mandelson to drop plans to allow ministers to change UK copyright law without needing primary legislation