News & Trends: Countdown to the Google Book Search Settlement Review
What's on the minds of publishers as the deadline for opting out of the suit approaches?
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“The settlement is by and large a good thing, since it will help people … get access to [books] on fair terms that compensate authors. But there are worrisome gaps in it,” says Grimmelmann. “It creates a powerful new registry that will have huge negotiating power to set the terms of the next generation of publishing and impose them on authors and publishers. And the structure of the settlement itself gives Google an initial lock on some very lucrative markets that will be hard for anyone else to dislodge.”
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