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Internet Archive Seeks Same Online Book Rights As Google

Posted by timothy on from the from-a-to-z-and-back-again dept.

Miracle Jones writes "Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive has jumped on Google's 'Authors Guild' settlement and asked to be included as a party defendant, claiming that they ought to get the same rights and protections from liability that Google will receive when the settlement is approved by federal court. From the Internet Archive's letter to Judge Denny Chin: 'The Archive's text archive would greatly benefit from the same limitation of potential copyright liability that the proposed settlement provides Google. Without such a limitation, the Archive would be unable to provide some of these same services due to the uncertain legal issues surrounding orphan books.'"

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  1. The author's right. Not enough pot by gringofrijolero · · Score: 5, Funny

    But then the world's economy will collapse completely.

    I'm all for it. Everybody wins.

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  2. Heh. by Arancaytar · · Score: 3, Funny

    asked to be included as a party defendant

    "Hey! No fair suing Google and not us. We want to be sued to! SUE US DAMMIT!"

  3. Re:A more general issue... by dissy · · Score: 1, Funny

    The issue seems fairly obvious to solve, to me: You, as the copyright holder, must submit a copy of the document to the Library of Congress for storage in high-resolution (or whatever the content equivalent is), and must send them a registered letter or similar once a year for your work to be declared not orphaned.

    Woah woah woah! What is this?! Using the Library of Congress for its original intended purpose, instead of as a unit of measurement???

    You my friend have just made many an enemy on slashdot from both sides of the fence :{