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CS rep­res­ents in­ter­ven­ors in the Google Books Set­tle­ment

April 13, 2009

Lewis Hyde, Harry Lewis, and the Open Ac­cess Trust today filed a let­ter with Judge Denny Chin of the United States Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York seek­ing leave to in­ter­vene in Au­thors Guild et al. v. Google.

Hyde, Lewis, and OAT chal­lenge the set­tle­ment pro­posed by Google, the Au­thors Guild, and the As­so­ci­ation of Amer­ic­an Pub­lish­ers on the grounds that (1) it gives Google a mono­poly in the law­ful use of orphaned works; (2) it im­prop­erly di­vides rev­en­ue that orphaned works gen­er­ate between Google, the Au­thors, and the Pub­lish­ers, even though none of them owns the orphaned works; (3) it fails to re­spect the pub­lic do­main’s claim to free, fair use of orphaned works; and (4) it fails to ap­ply rev­en­ue gen­er­ated by orphaned works to the be­ne­fit of the pub­lic do­main.

Ca­mara & Sib­ley is coun­sel to Hyde, Lewis, and OAT in as­so­ci­ation with Pro­fess­or Charles R. Nesson of Har­vard Law School. K.A.D. Ca­mara and Tim Nyberg handled the mo­tion to in­ter­vene.