CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Pamela Samuelson
UC Berkeley School of Information Why Is the Google Book Search Settlement So Controversial? October 30, 2009 You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.
Last October Google announced it had reached an agreement to settle two lawsuits brought against it for copyright infringement based on its scanning of in-copyright books for purposes of indexing their contents and making snippets available. The settlement claims that the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) represent the class of all persons or entities that have U.S. copyright interests in one or more books. If approved, the settlement will give Google a right to commercialize all out-of-print books (unless the rights holder opts out of the commercialization scheme) and to make non-display uses of in-print books (e.g., testing algorithms on the corpus of millions of books). The settlement also envisions the establishment of a Book Rights Registry which is tasked with finding rights holders, signing them up, and then paying out revenues from Google's commercialization of the books to the appropriate rights holders. This talk will consider the implications of the settlement for academic authors and researchers and will assess the likelihood of the settlement being approved. |
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