[Web4lib] More info on the Google settlement...

[Danielle Plumer]

And if you can't sleep, the proposed settlement agreement is available at http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/agreement-contents.html
 
The agreement appears to give public libraries and institutions of higher education the ability to set up one terminal per library location (or per a certain number of certain student FTEs for some IHEs) to access the free Public Access Service. K-12 libraries seem to be excluded. Per page printing charges will apply, and there will be lots of restrictions on use. Institutions can purchase additional subscriptions, but it's not clear yet whether remote use will be allowed. I didn't find any mention of APIs.
 
Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us <mailto:dplumer at tsl.state.tx.us> 

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The best information on all this is at Google. See
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/index.html
for "The Future of Google Book Search" and
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20081027_booksearchagreement.html
for their take on the agreement.

      - Jim Campbell

      Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
      University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112

      513 Alderman | campbell at virginia.edu | 434-924-4985