[News] Google Still Struggles to Resurrect Orphaned Works
Roy Schestowitz
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Google and Authors Win Extension for Book Settlement
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| A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday
| granted an extension until Friday for a
| revised settlement of Google’s effort to
| legalize its plan to create a vast library
| of digital books.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/technology/companies/10gbooks.html
Google Books: Scan First, Ask Questions Later
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| So-called orphan works, millions of books
| for which copyright laws still apply but
| whose rights owner is unknown or cannot be
| located, will still be scanned and sold in
| an online registry. New revisions to the
| plan call for an independent trustee to
| collect revenues generated from orphan works
| for up to 10 years, or until the rights
| holders are found. After 10 years, that
| money will be donated towards the continued
| effort to seek out copyright owners.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/11/google_books_sc.html
Recent:
Patry's MORAL PANICS AND THE COPYRIGHT WARS: elegant, calm, reasonable
history of the copyfight
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| Few people are as qualified to write a book about the copyright
| wars as William Patry: former copyright counsel to the US House
| of Reps, advisor the Register of Copyrights, Senior Copyright
| Counsel for Google, and author of the seven-volume Patry on
| Copyright, widely held to be the single most authoritative work
| on US copyright ever written.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/14/patrys-moral-panics.html
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