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Google Book Settlement at Georgetown

By Rebecca Tushnet

Last week, Georgetown held a symposium on the Google Book Settlement. I was unable to attend, but Siva Vaidhyanathan and James Grimmelmann spoke, and you can see their presentations at this link. I wish I'd been able to go to this and the Columbia symposium on the same issue--good summaries at the LibraryLaw Blog. With many of the commenters, I share a deep feeling that the publishers active in the settlement shouldn't be getting paid for orphan works; that's much more insulting, in a very real way, than Google or re-users getting paid for them, because the publishers not only aren't the owners of the orphan works, they're the competitors.

Full post as published by 43(B)log on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).