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Google Book Settlement - Today's Deadline to Opt Out

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

Today's the last day you can opt out of the Google Book Settlement, unless that deadline is somehow extended.

Here's Pam Samuelson's clear but sophisticated analysis of whether to opt out.

Pam has decided to to this:

For what it's worth, I'm objecting to the settlement, not opting out. Academics like me tend to want as many books as possible to be widely available to the public. The more opt-outs there are, the less likely GBS is to achieve the lofty ambitions of being a universal digital library to make the knowledge in books more accessible to all. My objection is aimed at making the GBS deal fairer for academic authors whose books constitute a substantial majority of books in GBS.

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Full post as published by Excess Copyright on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).