New York Law School Seminar on Google Book Settlement

The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School recently organized an event called D Is For Digitize on the topic of the proposed class action settlement between Google and U.S. publisher and author organizations.

Those organizations objected to the search giant’s mass scanning of in-copyright books.

The event brought together academics and lawyers who looked at the settlement through the lenses of copyright, civil procedure, antitrust, information policy, literary culture, and the publishing industry.

Videos for many of the presentations are available online.

LibraryLaw Blog has blogged the event.

Earlier Library Boy posts about the dispute include:

• Google Settles Lawsuit With U.S. Authors and Publishers (October 28, 2008)
• Google Book Scanning Project Settlement: More Reaction and Analysis (February 23, 2009)
• Association of American Publishers on Recent Google Book Project Settlement (February 24, 2009)
• Controversy Heats Up Over Google Book Search Settlement (August 24, 2009)
• How To Find Court Filings in the Google Book Settlement (September 8, 2009)
• Google Book Search Bibliography (September 14, 2009)
• Google Book Scanning Court Hearing Postponed (September 22, 2009)
• American Library Associations Publish Summary of Google Books Litigation Court Filings (October 6, 2009)