December, 2011
Update on Google Books Litigation
Nine months after U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin’s March 22, 2011 decision rejecting the terms of a proposed class action settlement,1 there are renewed signs of life in the litigation brought against Google by a broad class of authors, publishers and related associations over the Google Books Library Project, Google’s plan to construct a huge digital library.
Two weeks ago, The Authors Guild and several authors filed a motion to certify a class (more…)
Tags: Copyright, Google, Google Books
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N.D. Cal. Relies on Federal Circuit’s Model eDiscovery Order to Craft Search Protocol Significantly Narrowing Third-Party Subpoena
Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal relied on the Federal Circuit’s recently-released model eDiscovery order for guidance in crafting a limited search protocol that significantly narrowed the terms of a subpoena served by plaintiff Software Rights Archive LLC (“SRA”) on non-party Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (“KPCB”). In re Google Litig., Case No. C 08-03172 RMW (PSG), 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 140656 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 7, 2011). (more…)
Tags: Cost-shifting, Proportionality, Search protocol, Subpoena
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