More On the Debate Over the Google Settlement

Scott Gant, a lawyer at Boies Schiller & Flexner, and author of We’re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age, is filing a suit objecting to the settlement that would put an end to the class action lawsuit over Google’s activities in scanning library books which it then posts online. A number of other groups representing authors and authors themselves have raised questions about the settlement, although many groups have said the settlement seems like a good compromise. Read more here in an article in today’s New York Times. Here’s more about the settlement and about registering’s one’s rights.

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