Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?
February 16, 2010
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections
California Digital Library
"Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As the rhetoric around the Settlement heats up to white-hot intensity in the final days before the Fairness Hearing on February 18th, I’d like to offer a few personal thoughts from my vantage point at the California Digital Library."
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I can say that having the text of books digitized will be a huge aid to researchers. Just as Google is very helpful in tracking down quotes to identify student plagiarization, researchers can track down passages in academic sources for which they have only a fragmentary memory.
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