To be constrasted with proposals such as returning automatically the rights to authors after a book has been out-of-print more than x months. Such clauses are inserted in most publishing contracts of publishers in the Hachette group. It remains to be seen what they will write for the new contracts. In this case, it is likely that Google and Hachette Livre (a quasi-monopoly in book publishing in France) are striking a deal where the rights of the public and those of authors are paid little consideration. The publishers in the Hachette group have sent to authors a rights cession for Internet and electronic dissemination in the past months. I refused to signed it as it was granting the publisher or its contractants to put DRMs on books (my letter attached). Philippe Le 18/11/2010 09:25, J.C. DE MARTIN a écrit :
November 17, 2010
Google Strikes Deal With French Publisher
By ERIC PFANNER
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and DAVID JOLLY
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PARIS --- Google <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?...> said Wednesday that it had reached a deal with the publisher Hachette Livre, which has broken ranks with its French rivals and agreed to allow Google to scan thousands of out-of-print books for its digital library project.
Under the agreement, which follows a landmark settlement with U.S. publishers last year, Google will be allowed to sell the books it scans as e-books or in other electronic formats.
But there is one important difference between the U.S. settlement and the deal with Hachette, the largest publisher in France and the No.2 trade publisher by sales worldwide, after Pearson. Hachette, not Google, will determine which of the books covered by the deal --- those that remain under copyright but are no longer commercially available --- can be scanned.
Google and Hachette will share revenue from sales but declined to say how they would divide it. Under the provisional U.S. deal, Google is to receive 37 percent and the rights holders the rest. The deal Wednesday is non-exclusive, so Hachette will be able to make the same books available for other electronic selling platforms.
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