[A2k] Extending notice on the Google Book Search settlement

[Claude Almansi]

And now, it seems that the Google announcement posted by Judit was
just a way to show their good will while they knew a judicial order
was coming anyway.

"on Tuesday, Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court in New York,
who is overseeing the settlement, postponed by four months the May 5
deadline for authors to opt out of the settlement and for other
parties to oppose it or file briefs. The decision follows requests by
groups of authors and their heirs, who argued that authors needed more
time to review the settlement." (1)

>From "Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal" ,
Miguel Helft, New York Timesm Apr. 28, 09
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/technology/internet/29google.html>,
which, as the title indicates, is mainly about the antitrust inquiry:

"The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust
implications of Google=E2=80=99s settlement with authors and publishers ove=
r
its Google Book Search service, two people briefed on the matter said
Tuesday (...)".

So this is likely to be a longish affair. And should the Settlement be
declared invalid, then what?

A Swiss academic told me that when the copyright of her publications
reverts to her, she publishes them on <http://doc.rero.ch>, which is
part of the Open Access Initiative (see
<http://doc.rero.ch/help/description?ln=3Den>. However, for people not
affiliated to Rero through an academic institution, membership is CHF
3000.-/year (see<http://doc.rero.ch/help/membership?ln=3Den>).

But  republishing a work whose copyright has reverted to the author on
the Internet Archive would serve the same purpose, wouldn't it?

Best

Claude

(1) I have the judge's order in PDF if anyone is interested

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Judit Rius Sanjuan
<judit.rius@keionline.org> wrote:
> Google requests 60 day extension on book search settlement
>
>
> Extending notice on the Google Book Search settlement
> Monday, April 27, 2009 at 5:02 PM
> Posted by Alexander Macgillivray, Associate General Counsel for
> Products and Intellectual Property
> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/04/extending-notice-on-google=
-book-search.html
>
>(...)