Please forgive a light post on a heavy subject.

I went to a meeting of people concerned about the sweeping nature of the Google-AAP-Authors Guild settlement.  My favorite interaction was when the group was trying to figure out what the “Books Rights Registry” really is (BRR sounds so benign).

Since the settlement immunizes only Google’s scanning, lives off of Google’s money for the foreseeable future, and helps to find more things for Google to scan, this name was proposed:

“Google Books Acquisition Division.”   Pretty great.   Another added that the acronym is funny as well:  gBAD.

-brewster

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