What Does the Google Book Search Settlement Mean for the Industry?
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According to Aiken, licensing could have potentially created a cloudy rights situation. "The settlement gives us a way to cut through this," he says.
Under the new deal, if rights have not reversed to the author, publishers and authors will split revenue 50/50 for books post-1987 used with Google Book Search. Pre-1987 books will have a 65/35 split in favor of the author.
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- Companies:
- Association of American Publishers
- Places:
- U.S.
Peter Beisser
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