Re: Darnton on the Google settlement

[Imre Simon <imres.g@gmail.com>]

I find it even more intriguing to ponder who will determine the
copyright status of the millions of research articles under
copyright, currently being published at the pace of 2 or 3
million a year. Is there a clarity of thought that these articles
will eventually enter the public domain and that someone,
sometime, must have information about the status of these
articles written by millions of authors?

Imre Simon
University of S=E3o Paulo, Brazil


David Prosser wrote:

> I find it amusing that Google is expected to determine the
> copyright status of millions of titles before they can be
> digitised, but it is apparently unreasonable to expect publishers
> to determine the copyright status of the titles they publish
> themselves!
>
> David Prosser
> SPARC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Thatcher
> Sent: 30 January 2009 04:09
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: RE: Darnton on the Google settlement
>
> At 12:21 AM -0500 1/29/09, Rick Anderson wrote:
>>> There is, alas, a very significant amount of labor involved
>>> for publishers to investigate what digital rights they have
>>> in the books Google has digitized and to negotiate with
>>> authors over display and other types of rights they share
>>> under the settlement. This is hardly just a "free ride" for
>>> publishers.
>>
>> True -- it's essentially a free ride for the general public,
>> but not for publishers.  However, my understanding (which may
>> be flawed) is that publishers who choose not to participate
>> can withdraw their books from the program very easily, and
>> therefore end up no worse off than they were before the
>> project.
>
> I'm not sure how easy it is for a publisher to withdraw books.
> The publisher first has to identify which books in the database
> it can claim to own. And even identifying which books the
> publisher has published may not be so simple a task, especially
> for ones published before ISBNs came into use in 1970. All the
> books published between 1923 and that date have to be searched
> by means other than ISBNs.

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