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Slide 1: European Community Hearing on the Google Book Search Settlement Brussels, Sept. 7 2009 Presentation by Claude Almansi NB: in this version for the Web, I have added credits for the pictures I used, and a slide about the SIAE bollino saga I had to skip during the actual presentation.
Slide 2: Quentin Blake: The BFG. V & A Museum. By permission of Puffin Books
Slide 3: Quentin Blake: Cover of Roald Dahl'sThe BFG. By permission of Puffin Books
Slide 4: Collaborative Works - Printed
Slide 5: Collaborative Works – if Digital...
Slide 6: Speed Bump ...The purpos e of thes e [a nti-copy a nd a nti-print] provis ions is to create “s peed bumps ,” s o tha t us ers will find it s impler a nd more des ira ble to s imply buy the book ra ther than copy/ te or print it out pas in its entirety... e-mail from Boni & Zack LLC, July 1st, 2009 Speed bump sign, Uruguay, by Vince Alongi under a BY Creative Commons license .
Slide 7: In general ...By design or by accident, Google got the most reactionary elements in publishing to anoint Google the Eternal God-Emperor of Literature. Thanks a lot, Authors Guild -- with friends like you, who needs piracy? Cory Doctorow, "Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature". Boingboing, April 17, 2009 (link).
Slide 8: European issues: e.g. Italy Collage of: Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori SIAE (Google Street View); © 2009 Google. SIAE's "Bollino" (mark, label) for photocopies, from SIAE e contrassegni: un dubbio legittimo by Nicola Battista, Mytech, April 24, 2008. Under a BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license.
Slide 9: Bollino SIAE ● ● ● ● ● ● 1941: Law n. 633, art. 180 ff. 2000: Schwibbert affair November 2007: ECJ: bollino April 2008: Corte di Cassazione: bollino Sept. 2008: Roman Court orders refund Jan. 2009: agreement on alternative to Bollino (Padova) Feb. 2009: new Bollino decree ● (Re-inserted slide)
Slide 10: EU + Google Settlement Italy: SIAE + Google Settlement: No, thanks Other EU countries + Google Settlement: ?
Slide 11: Acknowledgements and References A2K list members ● Boni & Zack LLC ● Peter Brantley ● Marco Del Monte ● Digitale Allmend team ● Duri & Tangri LLC ● Knowledge Ecology International ● Bernard Lang ● SIUG members ● Andrea Sirotti-Gaudenzi ● References to the texts mentioned and used are gathered under http://www.diigo.com/user/calmansi/googlesettlement
Slide 12: And thank you very much for your patience This presentation should be added shortly in http://almansi.wikispaces.com/EC_googlesettlement Claude Almansi 41 av. De-Budé CH-1202 Genève Cell: + 41 76 401 85 69 - e-mail: claude.almansi@gmail.com Contact: