Copyright law expert Lois Wasoff discusses the most important changes and revisions to the Google Book Settlement in a PodCast (here). Some of her main points include:
- the underlying structure of the agreement and many of the economic terms of the agreement have not changed
- the revised proposal makes it more difficult for Google to simply decide a work is not commercially available and start to use it for display uses
- procedurally, the parties really have taken a step back by asking the court for preliminary approval of the settlement and of the class, which is something that they had gotten for the prior version a year ago. However, coupled with that request is a proposal for a fairly aggressive timeline moving forward, keeping this agreement review and approval process moving
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