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Article: ASMP Photographers React to Google Judge's Denial.
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- Leisure & Travel Week
- Article date:
- November 21, 2009
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On November 4, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling on a motion for reconsideration of the Court's earlier decision in the case of Authors Guild et al. v. Google, Inc. The effect of the decision is to exclude photographers and other creators of visual materials from participating in the settlement of the case, despite the fact that they had been part of the plaintiff class for over two years.
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) believes that the Court's decision missed the basic truth that a settlement that excludes photographic and other visual materials is neither fair nor in the public interest. If ...