lawyer on Google and orphans; NYR on reasons for google books failure

[Lawyer Ed Green gives a succinct account of the case, and quite a bit on the orphan issue. Useful. -- Robert Darnton gives a 6-point hike through Google's mistakes, and praises the possibilities raised.]


Google's 'Orphaned Books' Litigation; Effect On Digital Sales
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/33076
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/2702-Google-s-Orphaned-Books-Litigation-Effect-on-Digital-Sales

Six Reasons Google Books Failed 
Posted at 8:08AM Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 

Judge Denny Chin's opinion in rejecting the settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who sued it for infringement of their copyrights can be read as both as a map of wrong turns taken in the past and as an invitation to design a better route into the digital future. Extrapolating from the dense, 48-page text that accompanied the judge's March 23 decision, it is possible to locate six crucial points where things went awry. 
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/32833
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/mar/28/six-reasons-google-books-failed/






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