Lawmakers Weigh In On Google Books Settlement
Two House lawmakers wrote Attorney General Eric Holder this week to voice concern with the revised settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over Google's digital book scanning project. The two sides filed a revised settlement in November after the Justice Department and several groups raised concerns with the original settlement.
Texas Democratic Reps. Gene Green and Charles Gonzales told Holder that while they are "excited" by the expanded access to books and reading that the digitization project would provide, they are concerned that many copyright owners who have been excluded from the settlement would be harmed.
"Today, there are hundreds of thousands of authors who are not members of the Authors Guild and hundreds of publishers who are not part of the [Association of American Publishers] who would be most acutely affected by the Google Books Settlement," Green and Gonzalez wrote. "Yet their voices have been largely excluded from the process." They urged the department to ensure these authors and publishers "are not left out of this effort."
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