Omvärldsbevakning3. Avgifter. Haavisto_2.pdf (application/pdf Object) Blog posts: Google Books Settlement at Columbia: Part 1 & 2. Peter Hirtle attended the one-day conference at Columbia University entitled “The Google Books Settlement: What will it mean for the long-term?”
He has summarized the day's discussions in two blog posts:In thinking about the settlement, Hirtle says: We have a regulatory mechanism in place to ensure that works can be used in new and creative ways while at the same time respecting the rights of rights holders. It is called copyright law. The Google settlement may make the careful balances found in copyright law (as well as the public procedures to change it) moot, replacing them with private contractual arrangements instead.