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Authors, publishers and Google agree on copyright
The Authors Guild, the Association of American
Publishers (AAP), and Google have announced what they describe as a
'groundbreaking' settlement on behalf of authors and publishers worldwide. The agreement
acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright owners, provides an
efficient means for them to control how their intellectual property is accessed
online and enables them to receive compensation for online access to their
works.
This agreement, reached after two years of
negotiations, should expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and
other written materials in the
Under the agreement, Google will make payments
totaling $125 million. The money will be used to establish the Book Rights
Registry, to resolve existing claims by authors and publishers and to cover
legal fees. Holders worldwide of US copyrights can register their works with
the Book Rights Registry and receive compensation from institutional
subscriptions, book sales, ad revenues and other possible revenue models, as
well as a cash payment if their works have already been digitised
If approved by the court, the agreement should
provide more access to out-of-print books and additional ways to purchase
copyrighted books as well as compensation to authors and publishers and control
over access to their works. It also promises institutional subscriptions to
millions of books online and free access from US libraries.
'This historic settlement is a win for
everyone,' said Richard Sarnoff, AAP chairman. 'From our perspective, the
agreement creates an innovative framework for the use of copyrighted material
in a rapidly digitising world, serves readers by enabling broader access to a
huge trove of hard-to-find books,and benefits the publishing community by
establishing an attractive commercial model that offers both control and choice
to the rightsholder.'
Source: Research Information Journal
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