This document provides an overview of Google Book Search (GBS), including: 1. It discusses how GBS works and its digitalization of copyrighted books, which raised legal issues around fair use and copyright. 2. It describes how GBS partners with libraries by allowing them to install APIs or partner directly with Google to improve search results. 3. It outlines a recent settlement between Google and authors/publishers that will create a Book Rights Registry to compensate rightsholders and allow limited access to out-of-print books.

1. Google Book Search INFO 5590 November 10, 2008 Bryanna Boyd Tammy Kavanaugh Amanda Peters

2. Agenda Introduction Copyright and Digitalization Legal Issues Google Book Search and Libraries Recent Settlement The future of Google Book Search

3. Introduction What is Google Book Search? How does GBS work? http://books.google.com/ Other projects - Project Gutenberg - BlackMask - Many Books

4. Digitalization and Copyright © Michigan Library Consortium - Is the item published? - What year was it published, or if unpublished, what year was it created? - If published before 1989, does it have a notice of copyright © or the word ‘Copyright’ or Copr? - If published between 1923 and 1963, was the copyright renewed before 1964 when renewal became automatic? - Is the author dead, and if so, in what year did he or she die?

5. Google Book Search Legal Issues (1) Is the scanning creating intermediary copies of copyrighted works? (2) The use of snippets from the works when GBS conducts a search (3) The giving of the digitalized copies to the participating libraries

6. In Defence of Google Fair Use Opt-out Strategy Orphaned Works

7. The Law and Digitalization Sony Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp Basic Books, Inc v. Kinko’s Graphics Corp American Geophysical Union v. Texaco, Inc.

8. Google Book Search and Libraries Ignore – let users find it on their own Suggest – refer users to hard-to-find content available for free online “ I have increasingly come to rely upon it to answer thorny questions at the desk, to locate both old and new books” – Steve Ostream, Reference Librarian

9. Google Book Search and Libraries Install Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - include book previews, social features or link to GBS

10. Google Book Search and Libraries Partner – Libraries are invited to contact Google and describe their special collections for consideration Work for them – Information professional skills, such as providing subject headings and information literacy can improve GBS “ It's another shove to get librarians out from behind the stacks and harness their expertise[…]and to enhance users' ability to find, use, and access information in any format.” – Outsell (consulting corporation)

11. Recent settlement October 28, 2008 – Settlement announced between Google and AAP and Authors Guild $125 million from Google to create Book Rights Registry as a way for rightsholders to benefit from GBS. http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20081027_booksearchagreement.html http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/

12. The future of Google Book Search U.S. users will be able to purchase access to out-of-print items even if they are still under copyright. U.S. libraries can subscribe to other libraries’ digital collections through Google. U.S. libraries will have designated public access terminals from which millions of out-of-print material will be available for free

13. The future of Google Book Search What do you think about this new settlement? Money will now play more of a role in GBS – how does this relate to the role of libraries? - and does it conflict with their goal of providing universal access to information? It is unclear about what the costs will be and how costs will be decided/controlled – any thoughts? Free public terminal – apparently one per library so first-come first-served – is this fair?