Google: comment round up

There is now a useful flush of comment on  Judge Chin's decision, and it seems to cover most areas quite well. This is something of great importance to the industry and those below seem the most useful at the moment. No doubt there will be deeper thoughts over the next few weeks.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/46582-after-rejection-a-rocky-road-for-google-settlement.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/opinion/24darnton.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
'..."This decision is a victory for the public good, preventing one company from monopolizing access to our common cultural heritage."...'
http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=29725
'... is Google going to go ahead with it if they can't sell all those free orphan books?...'
http://personanondata.blogspot.com/2011/03/taking-it-on-chin.html
'...Remember also that the 'orphan' problem is not restricted to books but pretty much all media from watercolors to video. It is a complicated and expansive [?expensive?]  problem: A veritable ocean of competing and conflicting interests that is unlikely to be concluded anytime soon...'
'...Over the past three years, the Book Rights Registry (run by friend of the blog Michael Healy) has been quietly building a repository of data on claimants. As many predicted, the number of claimants that have come forward is small in comparison with the number of titles that have been scanned and the database may not shed any greater light on the Orphan problem than we already know: Orphans either don't exist, don't care or don't know...'
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2011/03/22/inside_judge_chins_opinion
'...The opinion discusses seven kinds of objections to the settlement:
  1.. Notice 
  2.. Representation 
  3.. Future releases 
  4.. Copyright 
  5.. Antitrust 
  6.. Privacy 
  7.. International...'








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