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Edward M. Gramlich Distinguished University Professor Paul Courant is featured in a new book, Along Came Google: a History of Library Digitization. “Mass digitization is dead," he is quoted as saying in the book. “We are back in that place where...

Paul Courant was quoted in several news sources about the opposition to the University of Michigan's and other universities' efforts to digitized their physical library collections, including The Associated Press, Inside Higher Ed, and The Chronicle...

The Economist interviewed Paul N. Courant in a recent podcast about issues surrounding a proposed settlement in an ongoing lawsuit against Google by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.Google's scanning and online publishing...

Paul N. Courant was quoted in an American Libraries article about a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision regarding the Google Books settlement.The case's ruling judge, Denny Chin, rejected Google's proposal for how to handle the digitization of...

Paul Courant spoke to Inside Higher Ed about a new objection to the pending settlement over the Google Books project. According to the article, 80 professors from around the country recently filed a letter with U.S. District Court of New York...

An article by Paul Courant appears in the October issue of The Economists’ Voice by the Berkeley Electronic Press. In "The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement," Courant describes the issues surrounding the Google scanning project including...

The University of California, University of Michigan, and Stanford University announced today their joint support for the outstanding public benefits made possible through the proposed settlement agreement submitted to the U.S. District Court,...