30. The Suit
• Author’s Guild and several authors
• Followed by October 19 suit by five
Association of American Publishers
members
• Argued: Google violating copyright
33. Settlement
• Over 130 Pages
• $125 Million Dollars
• Google becomes the web’s largest
online commercial bookseller.
34. [The deal is]“breathtaking in scope,
groundbreaking for publishers and
authors, and trailblazing for
intellectual property in general.” -
Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the AAP
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3423/google-publishers-and-authors-settle-huge-lawsuit-over-book-scanning-project
39. “Where does this leave the role of the
publisher? Anyone can publish content
now and peer reviewing can take place
in an entirely different way.” -Phil
Bradley, blogger and library consultant
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2231863/tight-embrace
45. Book Rights Registry
• Created by Google
• Overseen by board of publishers and
authors
• Will locate and represent copyright
holders
• Will be funded by portion of Google’s
revenues
48. What Rightsholders Got
• Can opt in and maintain over how
much content can be seen
• Can set prices or use Google algorithm
• Receive between 35% and 100%
revenue
49. “We had a major disagreement with
Google about copyright law... We still do,
and probably always will.” But he said
that the parties had been “able to set
those issues aside” for what “may be
the biggest book deal in U.S. publishing
history.” -Paul Aiken, Author’s Guild
executive director http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3423/google-
publishers-and-authors-settle-huge-lawsuit-over-book-scanning-project
51. What Google Got
• The market: settlement makes it
harder for competition
• Largest online bookstore: access,
print, and buy books
• Retain 37% revenue
• Has the option for print-on-demand
and subscription services
52. What Google Got
• Publishers agreed not to sue if
mistakes were made with regard to
orphan works
• Can display more text
54. What Americans Got
• More content will be viewable
• Will be able to buy online access to a
book or print out books for a per-page
charge
• Perpetual computer access to
purchased books
• Copy and paste for purchased books
55. What Americans Got
• Watermarked printing
• Annotations, and the ability to share
with 25 people
56. “Although it is only a US settlement I
think it is going to set a precedent or
standard worldwide. The business
model is going to become a paradigm
for everybody.” -Mark Cardin, VP of
Mylibrary provider Ingram Micro http://
www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2231863/tight-embrace
58. What not-for-profitLibraries Got
and
Public higher education
institutions that request it
• One (library provided) access
terminal per building for 4,000 FTE
• Software to navigate the collection
59. What Academic Libraries Got
• Ability to subscribe to the service
• Remote access for faculty at home and
students in residence halls
60. “This is a service that libraries, because
of copyright restrictions, could not offer
on their own and goes well beyond what
would have been possible, even if
Google had prevailed in defending the
lawsuit.” -Paul Courant http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3423/
google-publishers-and-authors-settle-huge-lawsuit-over-book-scanning-project
62. Library Pricing
• Still in process
• Governed by plaintiffs (none of which
were libraries)
• Guided by:
• Similar products, scope of books,
quality of scan, available features
63. Library Pricing
• Will be able to purchase discipline-
based collections
• Google can subsidize “fully
participating” and “cooperating”
library subscriptions
• Initial pricing structures will last 2-3
years
64. Library Types
• Fully Participating: lets google scan,
retain copies, follow security provisions
• Cooperating: lets google scan, without
copies and associated security provisions
• Public Domain: Provide Google Public
Domain works
• Other: Allow scanning without
participating in the settlement
65. The Research Corpus
• Subset of the collection for
sophisticated computer analysis and
research
• Libraries choose two sites, Google is
the third
• Designed for non-consumptive
research:
• image analysis, text extraction,
textual analysis, etc.
67. Next Actions
• Soon: Registry to begin
• 6/11/09: Court approval
• Rightsholders will have 120 days to
opt out (and still, after that)
• Mid/late-2009: Final approval
expected
• 2010: Likely to go into effect
69. “IMHO, this is a good deal that could be
the basis for something really
fantastic.” -Lawrence Lessig http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/
on_the_google_book_search_agre.html