What Might Happen with Google Settlement? "March Madness" Maps Convoluted Future
Library Copyright Alliance diagram shows many potential routes
-- Library Journal, 03/08/2010
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We're not the only ones wondering how the Google Books Settlement might turn out.The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have released a complex diagram titled “GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement.” (The three organizations make up the Library Copyright Alliance.)
The diagram (excerpted above), developed by attorney Jonathan Band, explores potential routes and outcomes of the settlement, including approval, rejection, modification, and much more. ("March Madness" refers to the annual college basketball tournament run by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA.)
Band says that “the precise way forward is more difficult to predict than the NCAA tournament. And although the next step in the GBS saga may occur this March, many more NCAA tournaments will come and go before the buzzer sounds on this dispute.”
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