Dear Google Books (you BASTARDS)

[shayenne]

So, I've finally had a chance to look at the Google Books settlement. Not before time too, as the deadline is now March the something

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[shayenne]

There's also yards of small print. I'm not even sure if (assuming I manage to negotiate their sign up system) I'm signing away all sorts of rights! Need to check that.

[frazz_led]

That TOTALLY SUCKS!!!!! Grrrrrr. How dare they?

*hugs*

[shayenne]

They dare because they're so huggggge that they can get away with it! Basically, they infringed the copyright of millions of people and then said "sorry... here, have a pittance and now it's okay."

And to think we worry about copyright infringment in fanfic!

[ebongreen]

That seems rather unreasonable. If Google knows which books were affected and what company published them, why isn't it up to them to funnel settlement money back through the publishers to the authors? Or get the publishers to supply the author contact information?

[shayenne]

It's totally unreasonable, IMHO.

Publishers have their own sign up -- there's dual layers of settlement, as one work can have more than one person claiming on it.