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The first in an ongoing series of articles on the settlement. Table of contents for the rest of the series can be found at the bottom of the article.
"The proposed settlement in the Google Book Search case should be approved with strings attached. The project will be immensely good for society, and the proposed deal is a fair one for Google, for authors, and for publishers. The public interest demands, however, that the settlement be modified first."
"Control over library collections, once guided by the values of learning and research, is now a commercial matter. Goodbye free, hello fee."
"What has been heralded as a breakthrough in the digitisation of human knowledge is also raising questions about how most humans will access that knowledge, according to an expert in copyright and the public interest."
Released by the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries, "to help the library community better understand the terms and conditions of the recent settlement agreement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers concerning Google’s scanning of copyrighted works."
