Karen,
Thanks so much for pointing this out. Of course, this cannot be stopped forever, and it will happen sooner or later, but in this case, apparently later. Personally, I would like the general populace deciding these sorts of huge problems, but I am sad because I would absolutely love to see the full text of so many of those wonderful books. (even though I am in Italy)
As the judge points out at the very beginning: "While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many", he determined that the question of intellectual property overrides and is too much to decide on the basis of this document. At the end, he mentions "opt-out" vs. "opt-in". In the digital world, you can always put in a robots.txt file to "opt out" and this has (I guess) been seen as satisfactory in the online world, but to do the same in the physical world is not good enough in his opinion. We'll see how the appeals work out.
Too bad.
James L. Weinheimer j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu
Director of Library and Information Services
The American University of Rome
Rome, Italy
First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle [lists_at_kcoyle.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 9:17 PM
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Judge Chin rejects AAP/Google settlement
Just came out. Copy of the Judge's decision is here:
http://www.archive.org/details/UsDistrictCourtNyDecisionAuthorsGuildV.Google
Seems rather prosaic, but I'm still reading. No ideas on what comes
next regarding Google books.
kc
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