Google Books Settlement Agreement with Authors and Publishers

Learn more about how Google Books works and the recent settlement agreement between Google and a broad class of authors and publishers. Please note that this agreement resolves a United States lawsuit, and therefore directly affects only those users who access Book Search in the U.S.

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[LordMortex]

Fuck copyright! -.-

All books should be public domain, after 20 years!

[asjeot]

Free books for everyone!!!

[aqssas]

nice

[kategrud]

google = fail

this guy wants to buy a fkn Ferrari by endowing google with a monopoly over the online books market, not give 'free books for everyone' like pippy long-stockings. just incase anyone was wondering, the proposed settlement is now held by law to have been unfair and thus could not be approved. maybe this explains why this guy looks like he is shitting his pants.

[vargulf19]

Parking for Public Library: $0

Walking into Public Library: $0

First library card: $0

Card/online catalog: $0

Reading through books in library: $0

Checking out a book: $0

Why are they suing Google again?

[F1sh9811]

Copyrights!? Bull! So do they want their book to be read, or just bought?! Do they worry about the money, or about their literature or point of view being seen? If the author really wants to write a book because they like it, then make the books free damn it!

[majams19]

The setting has a weird similarity with the main colors of the major rivals in communication service providers in Canada- Rogers and Bell. The sofa was a recurring theme in their ad wars, often colored partly in both colors, of course coloring a greater proportion of it in the main color of the sponsor of the ad.

[AshmosesIII]

Note that I don't mean to say that we should get rid of copyright. We just need to seriously revise it to make sure it's not about making companies richer but about maintaining the rights of the authors. Publishing via Google Books could actually be a profitable idea for many authors, but it's obviously contrary to the interests of existing publishers (what about exclusivity and such). I'm as squeamish as the next guy about Google becoming OmniCorp, but for the time being, they do a lot of good.

[AshmosesIII]

Google is a company alright, but not everything a company does for selfish reasons is ultimately bad. Compare Microsoft's treatment of Open Source with Google's for a quick example. As a matter of fact, the copyright holders (the publishers, NOT the authors) are companies too -- what makes you think their motives are purer than Google's? They're afraid of becoming redundant, not of authors not getting paid properly (which has been *their* doing for the past 500 years anyway).