[Corpora-List] obtaining copyright permissions

[nina at scils.rutgers.edu]

The US-based Author's Guild did sue Google for what you call "rampant 
digitization" in 2005. See for example, 
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/09/authors-guild-sues-google.

The suit was settled out-of-court just last month. See, for example, 
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20081027_booksearchagreement.html

To me, a non-lawyer, the relevant point in the agreement is that Google 
will give a portion of the money it earns to a new organization that 
will be set up to collect these funds and to keep track of what works 
are in copyright. (There's no central registry with a complete listing 
in the US.)

-Nina Wacholder

Albretch Mueller wrote:

>  To me corpora present their data (or "information" as some like to
> say) in an aggregated form. It is like saying that some people want to
> keep their personal data out of statistical or census data and AFAIK
> no one has sued google in their rampant digitizing of books
> ~
>  lbrtchx
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