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COPYRIGHT :
BOOKS: ELECTRONIC :
INTERNET: SEARCH: TOOLS :
DIGITIZATION: 
Top U.S. Copyright Cop, Microsoft Speak Out
Against Google Books Settlement



Top U.S. Copyright Cop, Microsoft Speak Out
Against Google Books Settlement

Updated 5:10 p.m.: Google announced that it will share digitized books 
with rivals such as Amazon.

Updated 3:13 p.m.: Google responds.

The Microsoft Blog
Seattle Post Intelligencer
<http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/178856.asp?from=blog_last3>



The nation's top copyright official on Thursday came out against a 
proposed legal settlement that would allow Google to digitize millions of 
mostly out-of-print books, saying parts of it are "fundamentally at odds 
with the law."

The news comes two days after Microsoft filed a strongly worded brief 
explaining why it opposes the settlement, which opponents say would create 
an "unprecedented monopoly and price-fixing cartel."

However, also on Thursday, Google announced that it plans to share the 
books with its rivals.

"Google will host the digital (out-of-print) books online, and retailers 
such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore will be able to 
sell access to users on any Internet- connected device they choose," 
Google said in a statement, as reported by Reuters.

Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, told Reuters the 
announcement was not a major change to the settlement. "It is and it 
isn't," he said. "We always had this vision that we were going to be 
open."

The settlement, which has yet to be approved by a federal judge, stems 
from a 2005 copyright lawsuit brought against Google by the Association of 
American Publishers and the Authors Guild. The parties privately reached a 
settlement in October 2008 that requires Google to pay $125 million and 
devises a revenue-sharing deal to publish material on Google Books.



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