Thread: The Google Library and Partnership projects: barely covered by the Irish Times
View Single Post
Default The Google Library and Partnership projects: barely covered by the Irish Times
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:
Google Book Search Settlement Notice to Rights-holders - Books & Inserts Registry
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.
_________________
here's the OP, did you read it ? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Here's the explanatory via Poetry ireland (did you read it?)>>> :
http://www.poetryireland.ie/resource...ettlement.html
I also have a Google legal letter which I think I will scan and add onto this thread.
This morning reports are that the dept of Justice has opposed the revised GBS, though there have been European concessions
which are detailed in another thread here>>>>> :
EU authors and publishing houses *out* of the Google Book Settlement (GBS)