Joanne Merriam » Google Book Settlement

Google Book Settlement

joannemerriam — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:17:00 +0000

The Department of Justice has concerns. (via)

Don’t Be Evil.

joannemerriam — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:38:15 +0000

Further to my earlier post about the Google Book Settlement, I registered on their site and discovered that they’ve scanned my poetry book The Glaze from Breaking (there’s a “yes” in the column entitled “Digitized without authorization on or before May 5, 2009″). They also think it’s “commercially available” i.e. in print, even though it not only went out of print several years ago, but my publisher stopped publishing entirely in Spring 2008.

legal neepery of interest only to copyright holders and their publishers

joannemerriam — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:15:44 +0000

The Amended Settlement filed in Authors Guild v. Google creates a non-profit Book Rights Registry governed by authors and publishers to oversee the settlement on their behalf. A Fairness Hearing has been scheduled for February 18, 2010; authors have until January 28, 2010 to opt out of the agreement. The SFWA is objecting to (among other things) Google’s potential monopoly, to the opt-out clause, and to leaving the fair use dispute (pdf) unresolved. The ALA, ARL and ACRL have some similar concerns (pdf) and have released a Guide for the Perplexed (pdf). The NWU opposes it; so does the ASJA. (previously, previously).

Mirrored from my post here.