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People from Oakland, the Bay Area and throughout California turned out to support the movement of Occupy Oakland through the General Occupation.

Here is a link to coverage from Yahoo! of the Occupy Oakland General Occupation

Judge Chin says no to Google

U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin put the kibosh on Google’s quest to become the publishing world’s ‘daddy’.

In case you had not heard… Google set out to digitize and essentially archive all of the world’s books, creating the world’s biggest digital book library, and all for $125 million.

Digital rights groups and authors are among those celebrating. Their concern… had the judge agreed to the settlement, Google would have been allowed to own and control all of the world’s works in the form of digital books, while violating authors’ copyrights. Authors would have to opt-out of the program.

According to Jack Korba of the Intellectual Property Brief,

The opt-out system that the settlement created exempted Google from future infringements that some authors may not be aware of as of now.  Such protection would definitely contribute to Google’s monopoly over the digitization of books and would potentially affect authors that were not adequately represented by the class representatives. (continue reading…)