Mr. Brantley is executive director of the Digital Library Federation, a group of 39 academic libraries and other groups promoting electronic resources. He wrote a blog post this month that complained about a possible settlement of a lawsuit that publishers and authors brought against Google....
Q. Why are you opposed to an out-of-court settlement to the Google lawsuit?
A. A settlement leaves unresolved how people can use out-of-print books whose owners cannot be identified --orphan works-- and the question of what is fair use regarding digitized books.
Q. How should Google treat orphan works?
A. No one should be making money from these. Yet that will happen because their [copyright] status is unknown.
Q. What would be a good outcome to the litigation?
A. Having a court determine once and for all that it is fair use to digitize a copyrighted work and make a snippet of it publicly available.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/21/2008 12:07:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
