Among other filings with the NY District Court in the Google Books Settlement case found after our pretty thorough list in yesterday’s Lunch: The Songwriters’ Guild of America says the agreement’s definition of a book, which “includes musical notation and lyrics that do not reach or exceed” certain threshhold, makes music creators and rightsholders in musical works subject to the settlement “despite having had no opportunity to negotiate the terms of such uses. This is a patently unfair result.” Proquest also objected, saying that they are a “class member who has played by the rules of copyright and contract law […]
