- Title Pages
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Chapter 1 The Health Care Reform Legislation -
Chapter 2 The Simple Economics of Health Reform -
Chapter 3 The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges -
Chapter 4 Can the ACA Improve Population Health? -
Chapter 5 Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment -
Chapter 6 How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform? -
Chapter 7 Financial Regulatory Reform -
Chapter 8 Government Guarantees -
Chapter 9 How Little We Know -
Chapter 10 Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation -
Chapter 11 A Recipe for Ratings Reform -
Chapter 12 Should Banker Pay Be Regulated? -
Chapter 13 Fixing Bankers’ Pay -
Chapter 14 It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance? -
Chapter 15 Hedge Fund Wizards -
Chapter 16 Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns -
Chapter 17 Why Paulson Is Wrong -
Chapter 18 Dr. StrangeLoan -
Chapter 19 Questioning the Treasury’s $700 Billion Blank Check -
Chapter 20 Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan -
Chapter 21 A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis -
Chapter 22 Please Think This Over -
Chapter 23 Is Macroeconomics Off Track? -
Chapter 24 If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008 -
Chapter 25 Comment on Barbera -
Chapter 26 Pension Security Bonds -
Chapter 27 Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability -
Chapter 28 Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation -
Chapter 29 Trills Instead of T-Bills -
Chapter 30 The Google Book Settlement -
Chapter 31 The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement -
Chapter 32 The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games - Index
The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement
The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement
- Chapter:
- (p.241) Chapter 31 The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement
- Source:
- The Economists' Voice 2.0
- Author(s):
Paul N. Courant
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
In 2004, Google embarked on a historic project to scan and index the contents of the world’s great research libraries. However, the authors and publishers of works in copyright sued, arguing that Google violated copyright law by scanning works without the explicit permission of rights holders. The proposed settlement greatly expanded the stakes, creating a great electronic bookstore where Google would sell (with most of the revenue going to rights holders) access to millions of copyrighted works, something not contemplated in Google’s original scanning project. Before the settlement was approved by the court, it asked the parties for an opportunity to revise the settlement agreement in light of concerns raised by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and hundreds of other objectors. This chapter argues that approval of the original settlement would have been vastly preferable to its rejection, because it provided extraordinary and valuable benefits to readers and scholars. But, in at least one important feature, the DOJ may be pointing the way to a settlement that would be better than the original. The DOJ has expressed concern that the settlement, “appears to create a dangerous probability that only Google would have the ability to market to libraries and other institutions a comprehensive digital-book subscription”.
Keywords: Google, copyright infringement, copyright law, intellectual property, electronic bookstore, digital-book subscription
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- Title Pages
-
Chapter 1 The Health Care Reform Legislation -
Chapter 2 The Simple Economics of Health Reform -
Chapter 3 The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges -
Chapter 4 Can the ACA Improve Population Health? -
Chapter 5 Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment -
Chapter 6 How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform? -
Chapter 7 Financial Regulatory Reform -
Chapter 8 Government Guarantees -
Chapter 9 How Little We Know -
Chapter 10 Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation -
Chapter 11 A Recipe for Ratings Reform -
Chapter 12 Should Banker Pay Be Regulated? -
Chapter 13 Fixing Bankers’ Pay -
Chapter 14 It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance? -
Chapter 15 Hedge Fund Wizards -
Chapter 16 Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns -
Chapter 17 Why Paulson Is Wrong -
Chapter 18 Dr. StrangeLoan -
Chapter 19 Questioning the Treasury’s $700 Billion Blank Check -
Chapter 20 Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan -
Chapter 21 A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis -
Chapter 22 Please Think This Over -
Chapter 23 Is Macroeconomics Off Track? -
Chapter 24 If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008 -
Chapter 25 Comment on Barbera -
Chapter 26 Pension Security Bonds -
Chapter 27 Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability -
Chapter 28 Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation -
Chapter 29 Trills Instead of T-Bills -
Chapter 30 The Google Book Settlement -
Chapter 31 The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement -
Chapter 32 The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games - Index
