One of the many complexities in the Google Book Search Amended Settlement Agreement is the legality of Google’s digitization efforts abroad. As Robert Darnton reported in the New York Review of Books, there has been considerable resistance to the settlement agreement on the part of foreign governments. France and Germany both submitted memorandums to Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York invoking lofty principles and the value of their culture heritage in opposing the book settlement. Now it’s clear that the opposition is not limited to Europe.
According to the Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report, Mian Mian, a Chinese author, has sued Google in Beijing “for an apology and 61,000 yuan ($8,921) for publishing part of her novel, Acid Lover.”
Though the trial is to be held tomorrow, it seems that Google is not very concerned –”Candy,” one of Mian’s books, is still accessible from the Google Book Search Website.
Foreign Authors and the Google Book Settlement
One of the many complexities in the Google Book Search Amended Settlement Agreement is the legality of Google’s digitization efforts abroad. As Robert Darnton reported in the New York Review of Books, there has been considerable resistance to the settlement agreement on the part of foreign governments. France and Germany both submitted memorandums to Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York invoking lofty principles and the value of their culture heritage in opposing the book settlement. Now it’s clear that the opposition is not limited to Europe.
According to the Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report, Mian Mian, a Chinese author, has sued Google in Beijing “for an apology and 61,000 yuan ($8,921) for publishing part of her novel, Acid Lover.”
Though the trial is to be held tomorrow, it seems that Google is not very concerned –”Candy,” one of Mian’s books, is still accessible from the Google Book Search Website.