I attended the Google Book Settlement Seminar at the RCSI this morning to get an overview of the case to date: Which
I must emphasise is not settled yet, thus making the dates/issues/cases and general agitation by Google whose advisors
and lawyers have created what is essentially an entirely arbitrary set of obfuscating circumstances to define book and
library digitalisation.
I think it's called Corporate avant-gardeism (cos it sure ain't intellectual):
Google Book Settlement Meet : Digitalisation A Brief overview of the GBS:
i). Google has redefined what comprises
Commercial availability.
ii). Through the Berne Convention (Which is covered by GBS) Irish Authors and Publishers have '
A US Copyright interest:'
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
iii). Google (for the moment one assumes) is excluding personal papers, sheet music, periodicals, public domain
and governmental publications from the GBS.
* Oxford and Harvard have agreed with Goggle to digitalise their collections.
*2005: The Author's Guild and Mc Graw Hill sue Google for copyright infringement.
* +7 Million books have been digitalised of which 5 million were copyright protected.
(This means that they went ahead and infringed legal copyrights and decided to fight the legal point at a later date)
* 2008: The Google Book settlement is achieved:
http://www.googlebooksettlement.com
All info on the settlement will be available on a special Author's help page:
Poetry Ireland , inquiries to
info@poetryireland.ie
Legal, timeline and other info :
Irish Copyright Licensing Agency:: ICLA | Frontpage
Google Settlement info:
Google Book Search Settlement Notice to Rights-holders - Books & Inserts Registry
The only IT article was hidden in the financial pages :
In short - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 10, 2009
The European Commission is meeting on this on the 07/09/09 to look at anti-trust elements which are
also brewing in the US (the speaker indicated that this is generally part of a class action in the US).
because a number of cheap US authors thought to support the Goliath, the issues has spread virally into the EU
whereby anti-trus meeting and Berne Convention will directly impinge on Irish Publishers and Authors. The US Library
of Congress is not supporting the Google lIbrary or Partnership projects.