On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those > taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of > what we do and how we use Google Books? > > http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ > > Carcharoth
I can't speak to the issues of exclusivity everyone was worrying about, but it seems to be a win for Google Books in respect to orphan works: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/#3 "# In-copyright but out-of-print books Out-of-print books aren’t actively being published or sold, so the only way to procure one is to track it down in a library or used bookstore. When this agreement is approved, every out-of-print book that we digitize will become available online for preview and purchase, unless its author or publisher chooses to "turn off" that title. We believe it will be a tremendous boon to the publishing industry to enable authors and publishers to earn money from volumes they might have thought were gone forever from the marketplace." Notice that it's opt-out, which for a real orphan work means no one will opt-out. Preview is better than nothing, for us. (It was unrealistic to expect Google to be able to offer full downloads.) -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
