More on the Google settlement: Is it all good?

As I noted on Tuesday, Google has settled the lawsuit over the digitization and display of book in Google Book Search. Here are places for more information on the settlement:

• Google Book Search Copyright Settlement (Google)
• The Future of Google Book Search (Google)
• The Google Settlement - From the Universal Library to the Universal Bookstore (Paul Courant)
• Major universities see promise in Google Book Search settlement (Univ. of Michigan)
• New chapter for Google Book Search (Google's blog)
• Google, AAP, Authors Guild: Joint PUBLIC FAQ (AAP)
• My initial take on the Google-publishers settlement (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
• Will Google book settlement solve orphan works? (ZDNet)
• Digital librarian criticizes Google's settlement with booksellers (Mercury News)
• On the Google Book Search agreement (Larry Lessig)
• Google Book Search and orphan works (Georgia Harper) added 11/4/2008
• More on the Google-Publisher settlement (Peter Suber) added 11/4/2008
• More comments on the Google-Publisher settlement (Peter Suber) added 11/4/2008
• Comments on the Google-Publisher settlement #3 (Peter Suber) added 11/4/2008
• Google Book Search Settlement and Library Consortia (Peter E. Murray) added 11/25/2008
• The Google Settlement - From the Universal Library to the Universal Bookstore (Paul Courant) added 11/28/2008
• Is Google Deal a Setback for Rival Digitization Efforts? (Andrew Albanes) added 11/28/2008
• Preliminary Court Approval of Google Book Settlement; Final Approval Hearing Set (Peter E. Murray) added 12/01/2008
• More on the Google settlement #4 (Peter Suber) added 12/4/2008
• Google Book Search Settlement: Public Access Service (Peter E. Murray) added 12/20/2008
• More on the debate over the Google settlement (Peter Suber) added 12/20/2008
• Settlement controlled pricing and tests on effects of openness (Georgia Harper) added 12/27/2008
• Increasing access to books: the Google Book Search settlement agreement (Daniel Clancy) added 6/22/2009
• Authors Guild, AAP, Google Settlement (30 min. audio interview with Michael Healy) added 6/22/2009
• The Authors Guild, AAP, Google Settlement: What Authors & Publishers Need to Know (1 hr. webinar replay) added 6/22/2009
  

I highly recommend reading or skimming the posts by Larry Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, who point out both the good and perhaps bad of this settlement. This is a complex settlement with more to be worked out.

And keep in mind that this settlement still needs to be approved by the court.

Related posts: (added 12/01/2008 & updated 6/22/2009)

• Article: The End of Snippet View: Google Settles Lawsuit with Book Publishers
• More on what the Google Book Search settlement means (and my vision of Google's future)
• Article: Is Google Deal a Setback for Rival Digitization Efforts?
• Rights holders have a limited time to opt out of the Google settlement
• More information on the Google Book Settlement and how to opt out
• Brewster Kahle weighs in on the Google Book Search settlement
• Google bashing? No, but some truth-telling.

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