[ga] Questions Linger Over Google Book Rights Registry

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

A bit of an interesting take and evolving development.

  Seems also to me this puts allot of push back of the RIAA
and ICANN's favorite constituency, the IPC leaving them
far less potent if not nearly impotent over time unless court
rulings in the future or ACTA comes to the rescue.  The former
is not likely, and the latter is facing international public pressure
that is growing, but not yet being politically considered.

See:
 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/31/0228237

We've discussed the fallout from Google's settlement with the Authors
Guild a  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/28/145249&tid=123
few  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/1628233&tid=192
times already. Now the issue is made pointed again by a
Wall Street Journal editorial claiming that the settlement will
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123819841868261921.html ruin a
functioning copyright system if it is finally ratified, as expected, in
June by a federal court. Reader  http://www.futureisfiction.com/blog
daretoeatapeach writes: "In the US this will establish a Book Rights
Registry where authors can opt-in to 63% of the revenues of each
book, the rest going to Google. While previously Amazon had cornered
the market on e-books, Google's partnership with Sony will create a
serious dent:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article5987343.ece

500,000 books to Amazon's 250,000. Though Google is currently only
releasing the books that are in the public domain, they ultimately plan
to sell the 7 million e-books they've scanned (and counting). This
raises a lot of questions about the future of publishing: Do we want
only one company (e.g. Google) controlling access to information? Should

publishers get a cut of the money, at least as long as their book is
being scanned?  Will broader access to trade journals
http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20090319/does_digitize_mean_democratize.php

affect their relationship and reliance on libraries? If, in the future,
more authors opt out of the traditional publishing model, when will this

hit the 'recession-proof' book industry?  And has the publishing
industry learned any lessons from MP3s?"

Regards,

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