On Monday (November 9th), a revised proposed settlement (aka Settlement 2.0) from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publisher will be released. The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has posted on its web site what they call “baseline requirements” for the Settlement 2.0.
The Special Libraries Association and The New York Library Association are members of the OBA.
The Open Book Alliance is issuing the following baseline requirements that the new settlement proposal must meet if it is to achieve those critical objectives. These requirements reflect the collective expression of concerns by the U.S. Department of Justice, authors, publishers, academics, libraries, foreign nations, state Attorneys General, consumer advocacy groups, and many others, and thus we think it appropriate to review the revised settlement within this framework.
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+ The settlement must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world’s largest digital database of books.
+ Authors and other rights holders must retain meaningful rights and the ability to determine the use of their works that have been scanned by Google.
+ The settlement must result in the creation of a true digital library that grants all researchers and users, commercial and non-commercial, full access that guarantees the ability to innovate on the knowledge it contains.
+ All class members must be treated equitably.
+ The settlement cannot provide for competition by making others engage in future litigation.
+ Congress must retain the exclusive authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to set copyright policy.
+ All rights holders impacted by the settlement must have a meaningful ability to receive notice, understand its terms and opt-out.
+ The parties that negotiated the settlement must live under the terms to which they seek to bind others, rather than their own separately negotiated arrangements.
Source: Open Book Alliance
See Also: Press Review: Judge Chin Sets Nov. 9 Deadline For Revised Google Book Settlement (via ResourceShelf, October 7, 2009)
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