Grumbling Grows Over Google Digital Book Settlement
Last year’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Google was supposed to settle the thorny question of who profits (and by how much) from the search giant’s practice of creating digital versions of out-of-print books, particularly those still under copyright.
But, as BayNewser points out, with a pair of legal deadlines looming, some authors and publishers are getting a case of settler’s remorse. For its part, the The American Society of Journalists and Authors wants changes to the agreement:
“The ASJA… is particularly concerned that the settlement does not contain language forbidding Google to censor which books and authors will be in the Book Search database, and that some provisions effectively revise copyright law,” the group said in a statement on Monday.
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