Comments on: Revised Google Book Settlement presented to the Court: Limited to U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/revised-google-book-settlement-presented-to-the-court/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/revised-google-book-settlement-presented-to-the-court/comment-page-1/#comment-1149087 Michael Pastore Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:39:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32084#comment-1149087 This revised version is better than the previous version, but is it good enough ? Does it still give Google an enormous advantage regarding the orphaned works, or does it level the playing field ? Does it comply with U.S. copyright law, or (as in the earlier version) does it place Google in the stratosphere (or, in the Googlesphere), miles above the laws ? Peter Brantley and Victoria Stauss have written a number of insightful articles on this subject: I'd like to see what Brantley and Strauss are saying about this new version of the settlement. Michael Pastore 50 Benefits of Ebooks This revised version is better than the previous version, but is it good enough ? Does it still give Google an enormous advantage regarding the orphaned works, or does it level the playing field ? Does it comply with U.S. copyright law, or (as in the earlier version) does it place Google in the stratosphere (or, in the Googlesphere), miles above the laws ?

Peter Brantley and Victoria Stauss have written a number of insightful articles on this subject: I’d like to see what Brantley and Strauss are saying about this new version of the settlement.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

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