The Laboratorium: Google Books Settlement, 2008-2011

"The Google Books settlement, a book collector whose audacious plan to remake copyright law was ultimately for naught, died today. It was caught in the blast from a recent court decision, and received fatal injuries. Ironically, the settlement, which had been seriously injured in the spring, had been rumored to be planning a comeback tour. In the end, however, doctors declared that its internal divisions were incurable. The settlement was a little over two months short of its third birthday, and is survived by millions of orphan works. Today, the Second Circuit decided In re: Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation, a kind of older sibling to the Google Books case...."