Though Google's explanation is difficult to understand, the contents of the settlement have both pros and cons for authors and publishers. I'm curious whether a culture of disseminating publications online like music content will now proliferate.
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Kensaku Fukui, a lawyer with expertise in copyright affairs, referring to Google Inc.‘s announcement in Japan that it had settled a class-action lawsuit with U.S. copyright holders. Google fought a legal battle with U.S. writers and publishers over its project to make an online database carrying the complete contents of publications. Japanese writers must actively opt out to prevent their work from being carried in Google’s digitized publications database. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
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adm_kenshin
One more step toward the death of copyright. Bring forth the rum, mates!
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JohnBecker
This is ridiculous. Copyright laws state that intellectual property cannot be reproduced without permission. Google's stance appears to be that reproduction is their right, unless the copyright owner tells them it's not OK. This can't stand up in any court, can it?
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dionysus
"...patents...are monopolies on information." From the book: Ecological Economics, by Herman Daly and Joshua Farley. 2004 Island Press, Washington, D.C.
I believe this also holds true for copyrights. The authors go on to explain how this creates economic inefficiencies and is counter to free-market ideology.
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