Comments on: Press Release: We’re opting out http://blog.sarahsheard.com/2009/09/opt-out-press-release/ The Writer, Sarah Sheard's Blog Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sarah Sheard http://blog.sarahsheard.com/2009/09/opt-out-press-release/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Sarah Sheard Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:34:34 +0000 http://blog.sarahsheard.com/?p=297#comment-22 Dear Doug, Thank you for posting me with your support on this issue. I have been stressing here in Canada the very point you raised — that Google's removing content from display is not the same as excising the digitized file from its vault. The entire opting-out process may have to be revisited should the Google Settlement be rejected. How can rights-holders opt out of a draft settlement that has been rejected by the court? You have every right, it seems to me, to ask that your intellectual property be removed entirely from Google's possession. The persistence of individuals like you will help halt this Borg-like corporation from appropriating and marketing the creative property of others without permission. In solidarity, Sarah Sheard Dear Doug,

Thank you for posting me with your support on this issue. I have been stressing here in Canada the very point you raised — that Google’s removing content from display is not the same as excising the digitized file from its vault. The entire opting-out process may have to be revisited should the Google Settlement be rejected. How can rights-holders opt out of a draft settlement that has been rejected by the court?
You have every right, it seems to me, to ask that your intellectual property be removed entirely from Google’s possession. The persistence of individuals like you will help halt this Borg-like corporation from appropriating and marketing the creative property of others without permission.

In solidarity,
Sarah Sheard

]]> By: Douglas Fevens http://blog.sarahsheard.com/2009/09/opt-out-press-release/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Douglas Fevens Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:50:22 +0000 http://blog.sarahsheard.com/?p=297#comment-20 Thank you Sarah for your work in the “Google matter”. I am a "pretend author and researcher" who has his own battle – I’ve been Googled! - with the partnership of Google Inc. & The University of Wisconsin. They digitized without my authorization my "Fevens, a family history" in 2008. I refused to go to their web site and "opt out" of their program, because, I felt to do so would send the signal that I condone their, what I feel, was illegal infringement of my registered copyright. Instead I have been writing letters and emails, which through my persistence removed my book from displaying at Google Books. However I am still waiting for written confirmation that all of the digital files from this illegal activity have been destroyed. As I expect a university library to act with more respect for copyright law, I have asked the University of Wisconsin for an apology regarding this infringement of my copyright. Kind Regards, Douglas Fevens "The University of Wisconsin, Google & Me" www.facebook.com/douglas.fevens Thank you Sarah for your work in the “Google matter”. I am a “pretend author and researcher” who has his own battle – I’ve been Googled! – with the partnership of Google Inc. & The University of Wisconsin. They digitized without my authorization my “Fevens, a family history” in 2008. I refused to go to their web site and “opt out” of their program, because, I felt to do so would send the signal that I condone their, what I feel, was illegal infringement of my registered copyright. Instead I have been writing letters and emails, which through my persistence removed my book from displaying at Google Books. However I am still waiting for written confirmation that all of the digital files from this illegal activity have been destroyed. As I expect a university library to act with more respect for copyright law, I have asked the University of Wisconsin for an apology regarding this infringement of my copyright.
Kind Regards,
Douglas Fevens
“The University of Wisconsin, Google & Me”
http://www.facebook.com/douglas.fevens

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