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• elisd commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  @#20: Yes, a group of authors could get together and object to the settlement. There is a mechanism for this built into the process by which class actions are settled. I'm not sure what stage this case is at, but it might not be too late to do that....
• Stephen commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  How does Google selling an out-of-print book discourage a publisher from reprinting it? It seems to me Google is maintaining interest in out of print books, and the publisher is free to take them back and move them out of the out-of-print category simply by reprinting them....
• Adam H commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  See the previous BoingBoing post on this topic. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/trying-to-save-orpha.html Lewis Hyde, Harry Lewis, and the Open Access Trust are filing to intervene in this settlement on behalf of the public domain to address precisely some of these issues. Adam...
• Brainspore commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  Publishers also try to get the largest possible SHARE of a finite market for books. If you're reading an out-of-print text made available by Google that means that you didn't just pay Scribner for the latest Stephen King novel. It's not a legal defense, but it's a clear motive for existing publishers to try to stop this sort of thing....
• aqeldroma commented on Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature
  I posted an article about the symposium sponsored by the Columbia Law School on the long term implications of the Google Books class settlement here. There are lots of nuances about this settlement that even the publishers aren't picking up on....