I’m very happy to announce that the symposium issue of essays from last fall’s D is for Digitize conference has just published. I wrote the introduction for this collection of seven essays on the settlement by some of the leading scholars to study it. In light of today’s (entirely coincidental) launch of Google’s eBookstore, this volume is even more relevant. The authors and the editors of the New York Law School Law Review worked extremely hard to bring these essays to you; I hope you enjoy and learn from them.
The issue is available from the Law Review’s website. Here’s the table of contents:
- James Grimmelmann, D Is for Digitize: An Introduction
- Matthew Sag, The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual
- Lateef Mtima and Steven D. Jamar, Fulfilling the Copyright Social Justice Promise: Digitizing Textual Information
- Bernard Lang, Orphan Works and the Google Book Search Settlement: An International Perspective
- Katharina de la Durantaye, H Is For Harmonization: The Google Book Search Settlement and Orphan Works Legislation in the European Union
- Christopher Suarez, Continued DOJ Oversight of the Google Book Search Settlement: Defending Our Public Values and Protecting Competition
- Mary Murrell, Digital + Library: Mass Book Digitization as Collective Inquiry
- Daniel Reetz, The Why in DIY Book Scanning