Aug
29
2009
Author: Sarah Sheard
If you are a published writer, time is running out for you to step off Google Corp’s Monopoly Game board. You have only until September 4th, 2009 to opt out. Follow this link to opt out online:
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Apr
5
2009
Author: Sarah Sheard
I have opted out. Nobody right now may be rushing to obtain erights to your out-of-print titles or books published prior to 2009 but this is only temporary. I opted out because I will not surrender my erights in perpetuity for a pittance to Google Corporation. Note that they offer to pay “net” of expenses. Net of expenses is called “monkey points” by writers in the movie business because net of expenses tends to inspire creative accounting on collectors’ parts. Collectors benefit first; writers are paid last. Net means whatever’s left after the Registry has deducted its own (unknown) operating costs. The Registry is not a neutral, altruistic, collection service for writers and publishers. It is the collection arm of the Google Corporation.
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no comments | tags: American Library Association, anti-Trust, compulsory license, Fairness Hearing, Google Corporation, Harvard Law School, monkey points, New York Law School, opted out, proposed Settlement
