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Kiwi authors left out of Google book deal

Amplify’d from www.stuff.co.nz

Kiwi authors left out of Google book deal

New Zealand has been left out of a deal to digitise books with internet search giant Google, due to complications over copyright issues.

The company announced the reduced scope of the rights deal with publishers’ organisations on Thursday, now covering just the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

The company also limited its scope to solely English texts, following formal complaints from France and Germany.

Director of the Digital Publishing Forum Martin Taylor said the settlement had come a long way and changed a great deal since it was initially proposed.

Essentially, the initial interpretation of the law meant a domestic United States issue - which would be handled by US civil courts - had been extended to the rest of the world.

He said New Zealand’s exclusion from the settlement allowed for a New Zealand project to protect the country’s literary heritage to be carried out, for the benefit of the people of this country.

Read more at www.stuff.co.nz
 

Google Books deal postponed

Objectors included countries, states, non-profit organisations and prominent authors and law professors

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

Google Books deal postponed after avalanche of criticism

The judge overseeing Google’s controversial agreement with American publishers to digitise millions of books has delayed a hearing into the $125m deal - effectively shutting down the settlement and sending it back to the drawing board.

“The current settlement agreement raises significant issues, as demonstrated not only by the number of objections, but also by the fact that the objectors include countries, states, non-profit organisations and prominent authors and law professors. Clearly fair concerns have been raised,” he wrote in a two-page order.

“We’ll continue to work on amending the settlement to address the Justice Department’s concerns,” it said in a statement on its website.

Read more at www.guardian.co.uk