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EU authors and publishing houses *out* of the Google Book Settlement (GBS)

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The GBS was initiated to digitise all books published before January 2009. lt is not a libraries project that is bound in the ethics of copyright and intellectual property rights but a deal that Google made with authors and libraries as part of their ongoing digitisation project. Links here : The Google Library and Partnership projects: barely covered by the Irish Times
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The Google Books deal , as it stands in it's present form will not proceed and must be re-negotiated : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...-books-delayed
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GBS halted via IT : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking12.html
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Merkel has added her voice to the angry noises that the GBS has elicited. Great about time too, maybe her govt will look at the collapse of the archives of Cologne and urban 'gentrification' too : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...kel-opposition
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l know individual authors who have already taken legal advice and opted out of the deal. one being a serious poet whose novels were classified as 'juvenile' ffs.
Has Bertie opted out ?
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he isn't a writer.
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Google digital library plan opposed by Angela Merkel | Technology | The Observer
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Google has been fined in France for copyright infringement : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8420876.stm
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