October 5, 2009

Google's Book Project: the Agony and Ecstasy

To the Editor:

Anxiety about Google's library-digitization project has ranged from concern that it will rob authors of income to concern it will turn libraries into a capitalist enterprise. The U.S. Copyright Office fears that the settlement "alters the property interests of millions of rights-holders of out-of-print works without any Congressional oversight, and has the capacity to create diplomatic stress for the United States." Geoffrey Nunberg, in his recent essay (

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