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    Samuelson Says Google Book Search Settlement Doesn’t Fully Reflect “Public Trust Responsibilities”
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    She said she wouldn’t worry about price gouging if Clancy “could live forever and could keep to all his promises.” The settlement “gives Google the right to sell the corpus,” she said. "Suppose they sell it to Rupert Murdoch… Wal-Mart... They could sell it to China! There’s sort of a ‘too big to fail’ problem." Then, in 25 years, when many universities have shed books because of their reliance on Google Book Search, “you’re stuck. Full Article at Library Journal
    Suppose they sell it to Rupert Murdoch… Wal-Mart... They could sell it to China! There’s sort of a ‘too big to fail’ problem.
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
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Samuelson Says Google Book Search Settlement Doesn’t Fully Reflect “Public Trust Responsibilities”
  1. There is an enormous amount of competing product built in
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  2. We get credit for having contributed five or six million volumes
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  3. I asked [Google point man] Dan Clancy what are the comparable products and service; he said there are none. I said that doesn’t give me much comfort.
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  4. If [Google’s] behavior down the line were egregious, don’t we have some laws we can get to after the fact?
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  5. As much as they could’ve done, who knows?
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  6. I think it’s an interesting story you’re telling, and I’m willing to think about it.
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  7. I think we ought to take the cross-examination off line.
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  8. I don’t think we’re all the way there. So I’m going to continue to nudge until the public trust responsibilities are worn as well as the public good cape.
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  9. You’ve presented this as an eleemosynary deal ... All I’m suggesting is there’s a little more in it for Michigan.
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago
  10. And suddenly, in one fell swoop, that seems to a humble economist like a magic trick of law
    SOURCE: Library Journal 1 month ago

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