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Old 09-15-2011, 02:03 PM   #1
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Bloomberg: Google Reports Progress in Digital Books Settlement Talks
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Google was sued in 2005 by authors and publishers who claimed the company infringed their copyrights on a massive scale by digitizing books and allowing snippets to be seen online. Chin declined to approve an earlier $125 million settlement, saying it would be unfair to authors.
The wheels of justice are slow.
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Old 09-15-2011, 02:59 PM   #2
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I applaud what Google was trying to do, but unfortunately for them it violated current copyright laws. Judge Chin seems to be in favor of some type of "opt in" instead of an "opt out" provision. Of course, this completely guts the Google repository.
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I applaud what Google was trying to do, but unfortunately for them it violated current copyright laws. Judge Chin seems to be in favor of some type of "opt in" instead of an "opt out" provision. Of course, this completely guts the Google repository.
It should be opt in. The only problem with that would be orphaned works. The solution there would be appropriate legislation.
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