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Thursday, 28th January 2010

Despite Changes, Many Still Oppose Google Books Deal

From the Article:

But version 2.0 of the Google Books Settlement has failed to placate many of the critics who opposed the original agreement. With a Thursday deadline looming, several parties rushed to file a new round of objections to the settlement, which requires court approval.

The article goes on to mention (and link to the full text of several court filings)

+ Amazon.com

In a new, 33-page filing, Amazon.com, a vocal opponent of the original deal and a rival of Google in e-books, said the new agreement “continues to give Google exclusive rights likely to lead to a monopoly.”

+ The Internet Archive

Similarly, the Internet Archive, which like Google has been digitizing books from libraries, said in a new filing that the revised agreement fails to address issues in the original deal, “including the misappropriation of massive numbers of orphan works, the anticompetitive nature of the agreement, and the failure to fairly address the rights of foreign authors.”

+ Scott Gant, an author and partner at Boies Schiller & Flexner

+ Pamela Samuelson, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley,

Has written extensively about the settlement, submitted a letter of opposition on behalf of more than 150 academics.

+ Open Book Alliance and Institute for Information Law and Policy at the New York Law School
Both filed objections

Support the Agreement
The musician Arlo Guthrie and the family of John Steinbeck, who had opposed the original agreement, last week reversed their positions, saying that the majority of their objections had been addressed. And the revised agreement has received new support from the Canadian Publishers Council and the Australian Publishers Association, and in Great Britain, from the Society of Authors and the Publishers Association.

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Source: NY Times

See Also: For More Filings (Pro and Con) See This Section of The Public Index.


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