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The legal settlement that would sanctify Google’s book digitization efforts may be on hold, but that hasn’t stopped the sniping over digitization in general, and Google’s specific role in vending e-books. The Frankfurt Book Fair, a major publishing event, is playing host to the latest skirmishes over what role Google and other organizations should play in controlling access to digitized material.. . .

The Google book settlement was not well received within the EU, in part because of the same sorts of competition concerns that caused the US Department of Justice to weigh in against it. But Europeans had some distinct concerns, as Google has scanned copies of European works that reside in US Libraries, even though these were never licensed for US distribution

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We haven’t read the World Trade Organization’s big ruling, handed down Wednesday, ordering China to be stop forcing U.S. companies to deal with the Chinese government when they want to distribute their copyrighted works. The ruling is 460 pages (460 pages!?). Maybe, if the action from Hazeltine proves less than entirely compelling this weekend, we’ll digest it and get back it to you. For now, LBers, you’ll have to deal with our shiftlessness and accept our news-coverage roundup.

The dealio: The ruling, according to the WSJ, represents a stinging blow to China — “it’s biggest defeat yet” — in the long-running battle over how American books, movies and music are distributed in China. According to the WSJ, the ruling could help break open the tight controls that have crippled the ability of filmmakers, musicians, videogame designers and other artists to widely market their creations at reasonable prices. Click here for the NYT article;

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