Google Book Search Settlement

Settlement in lawsuit filed by the Association of American Publishers and the Author's Guild against Google Book Search.

It focuses on books that are in-CopyRight but Out Of Print.

I think it means

• a registry is being created to manage flows of payments between Google and "rightsholders"

• Google can continue to show Previews/excerpts of books, paying 2/3 of the revenue to the registry

• Google can sell full-access to the book for consumers (is this opt-in? what about the orphaned works?)

• each rightsholder can either specify a price ("Specified Price") to offer access to the entire book, or let Google calculate the maximum-revenue-to-rightsholder-generating price ("Settlement Controlled Price"). Google pays the same % to the registry either way.

• other groups wanting to distribute EBook-s in a similar way could go to the registry and get a similar deal. But they'd have to do their own scanning.

Links

• http://cairns.typepad.com/iilp/2009/11/nyls-professor-james-grimmelmann-in-publishers-weekly.html

• http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement

• timeline http://dltj.org/article/gbs-settlement-preliminary-approval/

• http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/10/reaction-to-google-book-search.html

• http://pureinformation.org/archives/2008/11/25/google-book-settlement-link-dump-awesomeness/

• http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/google-books-settlement-readers-guide

• http://laboratorium.net/archive/2008/11/08/principles_and_recommendations_for_the_google_book