Following news that WME was advising clients to opt out of the Google Books settlement, the Authors Guild posted an advisory asserting “several errors that are likely to sow some confusion.” They write: “William Morris’s principal mistake is that it appears to think that the uses that the settlement permits Google to make are interminable. This leads the agency to draw a series of erroneous conclusions…. Most fundamentally, it leads the agency to conclude that authors are limited in their dealings with Google to the settlement’s terms, unless the court changes those terms. It’s wrong, on all counts.” The Guild […]
