Who's Your Copyright Holder?
PW Daily reports that the AAP has filed suit against Google, joining the Author's Guild in defining the next step in copyright law. Notes PW:
As a way of accomplishing the legal use of copyrighted works in the Library
Project, AAP proposed to Google that they utilize the ISBN numbering system
to identify works under copyright and secure permission from publishers and
authors to scan these works. Google rejected the offer.
As a way of accomplishing the legal use of copyrighted works in the Library
Project, AAP proposed to Google that they utilize the ISBN numbering system
to identify works under copyright and secure permission from publishers and
authors to scan these works. Google rejected the offer.
And given the past history of technology/copyright/antitrust lawsuits, judges are notoriously bad at understanding issues like this. Will Google have the right to put copyrighted materials in a database for the purpose of search only, without obtaining permission from the copyright holder, or will they have to go around and solicit individual permissions for this purpose? And will that prove prohibitively expensive in terms of time and resources?
Cool.
