Comments on: More on Google Book Scheme: REASONS TO OPT OUT

By: Department of Justice REJECTS Google Book Settlement | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:21:55 +0000

[...] wrote about it here, here, and here. I object strongly to the Google Book Scheme. Nice idea, very bad execution, particularly the part [...]

By: copyright and Google Books « creative barbwire (or the many lives of a creator)

Sat, 22 May 2010 09:52:11 +0000

[...] and from there we jump to what I had promised, i.e. google Books from the author’s POV: here are the reasons she gives to opt out of Google Books as an author. Colleen is very smart and legal [...]

By: Pirate Website raided by FBI UPDATED | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Pirate Website raided by FBI UPDATED | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:47:24 +0000

[...] Somewhere around here, I even have a document in which he claims Google itself hired him to set up the Google Book Search scheme. Of which I am NO FAN. [...]

By: GOOGLE: WHO OPTED OUT | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

GOOGLE: WHO OPTED OUT | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:24:26 +0000

[...] Terry Moore claims all his works are in print, and that he did not opt in to Google’s scheme. Google claims the right to sell “not commercially available” works as digital books from which Google will take a 37% share. (Da Vinci Code publisher Random House already settled with [...]

By: Google still behaving very, very badly: Strangers in Parade gets poachedis | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:33:23 +0000

[...] does not have the right to do this, and Terry Moore opted out of the settlement. Almost every page of every Strangers in Paradise GN is available in the Google [...]