Below, see VIDEO links from Coumbia Law Center
April 2009
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Kernochan Center, |
[wposflv src=http://www.authorlink.com/av/google_settle_video_1.flv previewimage= width=450 height=250 title=”Google Settlement”] Google, authors and publishers recently entered into a settlement agreement in The Authors Guild et al. v. Google Inc., a class action lawsuit brought against Google in connection with its use of copyrighted books in its Book Search feature, and in The McGraw-Hill Companies et al. v. Google Inc., a separate lawsuit by publishers. The settlement, if approved by the court, purportedly will provide new opportunities for authors and publishers to market their works. It will also enhance the publics ability to search for books and to get partial text displays (and, in the case of many older works, full text displays) at home, at school, and in libraries. At the same time, the settlement may have significant implications for copyright law, competition, research and scholarship. The settlement creates a complicated and comprehensive plan for: copying copyrighted books in the collections of participating libraries, including them in Googles database, and displaying all or part of them under certain circumstances deriving revenues from certain uses of the database and from sales of books paying authors and publishers creating a Book Rights Registry to facilitate the distribution of revenues to right holders opt out by right holders, as well as a mechanism by which participating right holders can limit use of their books free public access to Googles digital library from public libraries and universities The settlement embraces copyrighted works in U.S. libraries, regardless of whether the rightholders are U.S. or foreign nationals, unless the right holders opt out, which they must do by May 5, 2009. The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts presented a full-day conference on these topics. The potential long-term implications of the Google settlement for the parties, for other stakeholders whose works are not included in the settlement (e.g., photographers and illustrators), and for the public interest were examined. Video Recording: Part 1: Introduction: June M. Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center, Columbia Law School Legislating Through Settlement: Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights Competition Issues: Prof. Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School http://media.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/kernochangoogle090313tape1t.html Part 2: Panel: The Future of "Books" http://media.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/kernochangoogle090313tape2t.html Moderator: June M. Besek, Executive Director, Kernochan Center, Columbia Law School Panelists: Allan R. Adler, Vice President – Legal and Governmental Affairs, Association of American Publishers (AAP) Niko Pfund, Vice President and Publisher, Trade and Academic Books, Oxford University Press, New York Richard Sarnoff, Co-Chairman, Bertelsmann, Inc. and President, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments Jule Sigall, Senior Policy Counsel/Copyright and Trademark, Microsoft Corp. Herman Spruijt, President, International Publishers Association Lois F. Wasoff, Legal Consultant, former Vice President and Corporate Counsel, Houghton Mifflin Company Part 3: Panel: Authors and Incentives http://media.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/kernochangoogle090313tape3t.html Moderator: Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School Panelists:
Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, Copyright Clearance Center Part 4: Panel: The Public Interest http://media.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/kernochangoogle090313tape4t.html Moderator: Mary Rasenberger, Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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