A Useful Guide to Google Settlement
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Library Association (ALA) have released a useful 22-page summary of the key points of the Settlement entitled “A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement” and written by Jonathan Band, JD. From the ARL website:
The guide is designed to help the library community better understand the terms and conditions of the recent settlement agreement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers concerning Google’s scanning of copyrighted works. … The guide outlines and simplifies the settlement’s provisions, with special emphasis on the provisions that apply directly to libraries.
The guide doesn’t evaluate, criticize, or take a stand toward the Settlement, but it is a thoughtful and careful guide.