Google Settle

A interesting article in this morning's National Business Review.

Google has finalised an out-of-court $US125 million settlement with book publishers for scanning their titles without permission, and the NZ Copyright Council has begun taking local claims on the cash.

Copyright Licensing Ltd, the vehicle set up by the Book Publishers Association of NZ for dispersing copyright fees, has just opened its website for New Zealand publishers to make claims under a $US125 million worldwide settlement reached between publishers and Google.

An interesting glimpse into a key difference between the Google and the Pingar business models. Pingar will only search data which is owned by content owners who are contracted to Pingar. Period.

Quality data. Quality returns. And happy content owners....