The world we live in today surrounds us with technology everywhere we go. Given that the popular website google is now able to scan books and put them on their database for all to see page for page, the need for a library can be a thing of the past. Federal Judge for the case is Denny Chin who hears the case for the proposed settlement that will be debated between Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers and Google. The publishers are trying to prevent Google from scanning books into a gigantic online database. Google makes profit off what they put on their website, so for them to put out books which were made for sale, means google is in violation of the copyrights for the book publisher. Privacy advocates for the case say it will allow google to see statistics and a corporate oversight of what people are reading. The justice department says google is violating exclusive rights to the authors.
I think all books should be put on google including school books so that students don't have to carry their books everywhere and overall ease of use. As far as copyrights go, i think the publisher should have the option to let everyone see the book or just a few pages and an option to purchase the book giving rolayties to the author. This way both compaines would be gaining profit from the work and providing ease of use to the buyer. I think once the case is over, more deals and settlements will be made so that all people involved in the process will get their fare share of profit from the database.
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