Google settlement rejected

["James J. O'Donnell" <jod@georgetown.edu>]

Judge Chin in a 48 page ruling has rejected the Google 
settlement. Among many news reports, all mostly the same, see:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216923562033348.html

The main point seems to be that he signals that if the settlement 
were "opt-in" for authors rather than "opt-out", he could find it 
acceptable.  The challenge of that is that "orphan works" don't 
have authors available to do the opting in for them and so would 
be effectively excluded.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown