With the extended deadline for filing objections to the proposed settlement of lawsuits over Google Book Search, you can expect a long line of dissent in days to come. The most recent filing is “comments” from the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The larger problem here is that no solution–legal (via approval, rejection, or suggested modification of the settlement), legislative, or even business-driven–will make all parties happy. The original project, audacious as it was (and remains), appalled some and left others disappointed, and that will remain irreconcilable. As the libraries make clear in their […]
