REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS SLAMS GOOGLE SETTLEMENT

摘要

At a Congressional hearing September 17 on the Google Book Search Settlement, Mary bet h Peters, register of copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office, testified forcefully, warning that key parts of the settlement "are fundamentally at odds with the law," allowing the courts, rather than Congress, to give Google a compulsoryrnlicense so it can continue to scan copyrighted books.