French authors' body warns over Google-Hachette deal

[No easy answers here; it is a deal to watch closely. Note specially '... could go on to become a template for  (future) agreements ...']

French authors' body warns over Google-Hachette deal 
Posted at 5:54PM Monday 22 Nov 2010 
Last week's deal between Google and the publisher Hachette Livre should put authors on high alert, according to the French authors' body, La Société des Gens de Lettres de France (SGDLF). They have called today for authors to scrutinise contracts with "the highest degree of vigilance" in the light of the search engine's agreement over scanning works that are out of print.
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/30517
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/22/google-hachette-copyright
'...warned...they would need to sign new or amended contracts so that their publisher had electronic rights ... The French authors' body also asserted that payment to authors should be "proportional" to the retail price fixed by Hachette and other revenues from the exploitation of their works, and authors' moral right must be respected "in its entirety"....'
'..."It will probably become more important for authors to make sure they can get their rights back when their work is no longer being sold effectively, and that they get a proper share of revenue," he said....'


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