Sentences with phrase «brought against publishers»

Not exact matches

Instead, most publishers backed an alternative system which would make it harder for groups to bring complaints against the industry.

And the stakes posed by the narrative are high enough that one is riveted throughout to a story whose outcome is no surprise: Irving famously lost a libel case that he brought in 1996 against the American academic Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her UK publishers, Penguin Books.

Self - publishing is being brought into the mainstream against the belief that this segment generally caters to those whose works have been rejected by the traditional publishers.

If we bring hope to those self - publishers who have no initial budget yet feel it's against their soul to write, then our perceived risk will be worth it.

Agency pricing has not been found to be illegal, and no criminal charges have been brought against Apple or the publishers; the three publishers who settled out of court in the DoJ lawsuit have admitted no wrongdoing.

The fight against Google Advertising has been taken to European courtrooms for several years, with publishers in Belgium, Italy, and France bringing copyright cases against it for displaying and aggregating snippets of content in search results and on services such as its Google News aggregator.

Because the book became a hybrid lyric memoir that I feel pushes up against the boundaries of the genre, it felt like an independent publisher committed to bringing readers more experimental or overlooked story forms, from traditionally marginalized writers including women, would be the right home.

The United States of America, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, brings this civil antitrust action against Defendants Apple, Inc. («Apple»); Hachette Book Group, Inc. («Hachette»); HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. («HarperCollins»); Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH and Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d / b / a Macmillan (collectively, «Macmillan»); The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson plc and Penguin Group (USA), Inc. (collectively, «Penguin»); and Simon & Schuster, Inc. («Simon & Schuster»; collectively with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Penguin, «Publisher Defendants») to obtain equitable relief to prevent and remedy violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1.

Two weeks ago, the publisher brought about a lawsuit against twenty - seven individuals who were swapping digital editions of the For Dummies books online.

Unlike suits brought about on behalf of consumers — such as the lawsuit brought against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for artificially overcharging customers for ebooks — this one is focused on the people who bought stock in Barnes and Noble based on information that the SEC now feels might have been false.

Now that Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple was, in fact, guilty of the price fixing allegations that the Department of Justice brought against it and five of the Big Six publishers, Apple's punitive fate is still being hashed out.

But there appears to be another issue at the core of the conflict as well: which party will bear «the financial burden of e-book discounting» now that S&S has agreed to settle the price fixing suit brought against it and other publishers by the Department of Justice.

The lawsuit was brought against Google by five AAP member publishers — McGraw - Hi...

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It's not just a soap box against traditional publishers; it's about working together to bring more stories into the world that can make a measurable difference.

However, shall we not wait to see how many legal cases are brought against CEO's, publishers who tell lies and break contract agreements, before making a final decision on this argument?

Many readers are aware of the anti-trust lawsuit brought by the Dept. of Justice and forty - nine state Attorney Generals against some of the nations largest publishers.

On the basis of «CREATOR principles» previously set by the SoA, demands include that authors should receive «at least» 50 % of the revenue from e-book sales, «not a mere 25 %» they do currently, that authors don't have their «hands tied with contracts that can not be terminated when a book is no longer being exploited», for publishers to drop non-compete clauses and for indemnity clauses, often included to help protect publishers financially against cases brought on the basis of plagarism and libel, «to spread the risk fairly between the publisher and the author».

with publisher Aksys Games have come together to bring you the next line of ghost - busters and throws you head - first into life - or - death battles against the ghosts that lurk in the darkness of Tokyo.

Tencent wants to augment its service offering to include competing in China directly against Steam, and so are committing to bring third - party titles to their store from developers and publishers around the world.

In addition to bringing the third - party goods, Sony has a nice catalog of their own franchises, and by not siding with publishers against the consumers and producing an altogether more appealing package, it looks like they've trumped Microsoft but good.

In 2009 Cariou brought a copyright infringement suit against Prince, Gagosian Gallery, Lawrence Gagosian and catalogue publisher Rizzoli.

Rather, it's the first day of trial in a copryight infringement suit brought by «Harry Potter» author J.K. Rowling and her publisher, Warner Bros. against RDR Books, publisher of Steve Vander Ark's 400 page reference book, the Harry Potter Lexicon, based on the online version.

MPs will also vote on an amendment that would force publishers to pay claimants» costs, win or lose, in any data protection action brought against them, unless they are a member of a state - backed regulator.

On May 11 a US District Court issued its long awaited decision in the lawsuit brought by three academic publishers against Georgia State University for its use of copyrighted materials in its «electronic reserves» system.

The case involved a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department against major online publishers, including Apple, alleging price - fixing in regard to e-books.

NME has requested to strike out the libel lawsuit, which was brought against the magazine's former editor Conor McNicholas and its publisher IPC Media by Morrissey (pictured) four years ago.

The difficulty with any lawsuit (whether brought by a broker or a consumer against an MLS or brought by a broker or an MLS against a publisher) is proving damages.