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Judge Chin Says He Will Cut the Google Book Settlement
Miracle Jones writes "In a move that has shocked the publishing world, Judge Denny Chin has filed a brief saying that he has decided to cut the Google Book Settlement in half, letting Google host the first half of every book the company has scanned, and letting other interested stakeholders fight for the rights to the rest. 'We think this is a hard decision, but a fair one,' said John Peter Franks for Google. 'We would like to be able to host and control whole books, but at least we get the front half.'"
Seems like wise Judge Chin is looking for one of the plaintiffs to give up ownership in order to save the books from being cut in half... How biblical, and entirely unlikely :)
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...beg for the King to spare the book and give it to the other party?
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This time I RTFA, because surely this is an April Fools joke.
'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' - Mao Tse-tung
Looks like the settlement has already been implemented by Sla
FINALLY after a decade of implausible and embarassingly bad April Fool's attempts, one of them tricked me.
I was hoping that the Authors/Publishers would get the bottom half of the page and Google the top half. Seems they divided it the stupid way. Make them cooperate to make a buck for a change.
Why bother
ponies again!!
pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaassssse yay ponies!
bring bak the ponies!!
Is that you?
*Woosh*
Ok, April Fools I know but at least get the legal details right. A judge would file an opinion. A brief is what an interested party files to convince the judge of something or ask him to do something.
This one wouldn't be nearly as funny if the legal system here weren't such an enormous train-wreck. It seems that even the most ridiculous of outcomes is possible in the US.
like the other guy said
*Woosh*
Someday we'll hit the human carrying capacity. And the band will just play on.
1/2 post!
Darn darn darn darn damn right!!
If not for the huge "the fiction circus" title, I would have believed it too.
Isn't that exactly the point? Every year on 1 April, the whole /. is completely filled with wanna be jokes "news" that there is no hope of getting anything useful at all.
Just FYI, the rest of the world didn't stop for one day every April, some of us still proceed normally with life and still wants to check for some real news today.
Oliver.
The other half will be hosted by Topeka book services....
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Cut the settle? Presumably he's going to make it into two chairs.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Your loss.
I tend to think that if the world were a little less uptight and could take a break once in a while to just laugh, we'd have a lot fewer wars, less terrorism, less crime, and a generally less miserable existence. IMHO, it's unfortunate that people don't take the opportunity to laugh at themselves more than once a year.
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This.
Serious people piss me off more than anything.
Glad i don't work with people like that, probably go insane at them. (like you said)
Serious people ruined the world.
STRESS STRESS STRESS DEADLINES STRESS ANGRY LUNCHTIME CAKES WITH SOME STRESS SAUCE.
Every. Single. Day. Now THAT is sad.
You want to know the sad thing? IAAL who works exclusively in federal courts. This sounded plausible to me.
Now we know the true owner of the book; for they would rather it go to another than come to harm.
Except for those of us who find it funny. For us, Slashdot was stupid on the April 1st where they ran normal stories (two or three years ago, I forget).
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Exactly what I mean. I once complained to my attorney about the absurdity of the legal system, how having the best case, legally, is marginally relevant to achieving a reasonable outcome, and his response was:
"The best odds you can get are maybe 70/30 in anything that goes to court. The only thing you can be sure of in a civil case is that, if you go to court, you've already lost."