So what happens next in the Google case? Everyone waits for the judge, which could be weeks, or months. The outside boundary is likely the scheduling of his Senate confirmation hearing on his nomination to move up to the Court of Appeals. A couple more interesting statistics that were mentioned in the afternoon’s presentations. Michael Boni said that so far, “620,000 books that are out-of-print that we would call orphan works” have been claimed by 40,000 authors. While the effective monopoly over unclaimed works is an important issue in the case, Google may have defused that in part with this […]
