From Forum, with Michael Krasny (KQED Radio)
According to linguist [and School of Information professor] Geoffrey Nunberg, Google's book search is well on its way to becoming "the world's largest digital library" -- but not without controversy. Tuesday is the last day to file comments with a U.S. District Court on a class action lawsuit between Google and several authors and publishers. Google has reached a settlement with these industry partners, and hopes to build its online library as a service to the public good. But opponents of the deal claim it gives Google a monopoly over digitized books. We discuss the settlement and what it means for authors.
Guests include Pamela Samuelson, professor at UC Berkeley's [School of Information and] Boalt Hall School of Law