Posted on the Automat last week but worth a little more attention on this quiety day, Google posted on their public policy blog regarding the pending settlement of the GBS lawsuits. “As ‘parent’ rightsholders claim their books through the Book Rights Registry, we think it will become clear that most out-of-print books are not actually ‘orphans.’… Furthermore, many books that some think are in-copyright orphans (including a large percentage from 1963 or before) are actually out-of-copyright, and Google is working to make more information available that can clarify their copyright status.” But they say they continue to support orphan works […]
