Thursday, March 04, 2010

The Google Books Settlement: The Monster and the Maze


This is Asaf Hanuka's amazing illustration of the Google Book Monster which appears on the cover of this month's issue of California Lawyer. It accompanies Tom McNichol's feature story on GBS, Saving the World from Google.


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The Library Copyright Alliance has released this dizzying chart outlining all the legal possibilities that still remain. They have named this maze; “GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement."

Looks like there is still a long way to go before this one is settled.


Thanks to Brave New World for the lead on the diagram.

1 comments:

C.E. Petit said...

What is probably most frightening about the flow chart is that (as Mr Band says himself) it's simplified...

 
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