EDUCAUSE Live! September 2, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

The Google Book Scanning Project: Issues and Updates

Special Guests

Jonathan Band
Counsel
Library Copyright Alliance

Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the DMCA, database protection legislation, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, and other federal and state statutes. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions. An adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Band has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet. Band received a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. Prior to establishing his own law firm in May 2005, he worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP for 20 years, including 13 years as a partner.

Dan Clancy
Engineering Director
Google Book Search

Daniel J. Clancy is the engineering director for the Google Book Search Project, which works to bring off-line book content online and make it searchable to allow discovery of books. Google is working with both publishers and libraries as part of this project. Prior to coming to Google in January 2005, Clancy was the director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Clancy received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in artificial intelligence. While in school, he also worked at Trilogy Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Xerox Webster Research center. He received a BA from Duke University in 1985 in computer science and theatre.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Jonathan Band and Dan Clancy, and the topic will be "The Google Book Scanning Project: Issues and Updates."

For about five years, Google has been scanning and indexing millions of volumes drawn from academic libraries and other sources worldwide. The project has been greeted with high praise but also with lawsuits. In the latter category, a judge will shortly decide whether to approve a settlement reached last year by Google and several organizations representing authors and publishers. The issues swirling around the settlement include the treatment of absent rightsholders, user privacy, and competition. This session will offer a status report on the project and explore both sides of these questions.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Digital Imaging
• Digital Preservation
• Google
• Library Projects
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement [1.17 MB PDF]
• Google Book Settlement Information for Faculty and Scholars, from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• Google Books
• Google Books Library Project