pros and cons of proposed Google Book settlement

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Pam Samuelson <pam () ischool berkeley edu>
> Date: January 13, 2010 11:43:52 AM EST
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: pros and cons of proposed Google Book settlement

> In just over a month (on Feb. 18), a federal judge in NYC is  
> expected to hold a hearing to consider whether to approve the  
> proposed settlement of the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit.
> Although this lawsuit only involved the narrow question of whether  
> Google's scanning of books for the purpose of indexing their  
> contents and making snippets available was fair use, the proposed  
> settlement reaches far beyond this to create a new set of digital  
> markets in books; it will give Google a license to commercialize all  
> in-copyright out of print books published in the US, UK, Canada and  
> Australia (unless the rights holder specifically requests that  
> Google not do this) and will create a new collecting society whose  
> task is to allocate funds from this commercialization to appropriate  
> rights holders (unless they have signed up for the Google Partner  
> Program).
>
> The deadline for filing objections, oppositions, or opt-outs for  
> this settlement is coming up soon, Jan. 28.
>
> All persons who own a US copyright interest in either one or more  
> books or book chapters or other contributions to books (known in GBS- 
> speak as "inserts") will be affected by the settlement.
> Those who have yet to decide what to do about the settlement may  
> find it useful to peruse this article which articulates the pros and  
> cons of the proposed GBS settlement, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1535067 
> .



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