Webcast: Google Book Settlement Workshop – 1/20/2010

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Webcast: Google Book Settlement Workshop – 1/20/2010

On Jan 20, the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) , the National Writers Union (NWU), Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) jointly sponsored a workshop to discuss the implications for writers of the proposed Google Books Settlement (GBS).

With NWU President Larry Goldbetter moderating, the panel was

Paul Aiken – Authors Guild
James Grimmelmann – NY Law School
Lynn Chu – Writers’ Reps LLC

with additional input from:

Ed Hasbrouck – National Writers Union
Sally Shannon – President, American Society of Journalists and Authors
Michael Capobianco – Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Special thanks to NWU for hosting, ASJA for handling registration, and Joly MacFie of ISOC-NY for recording the event.

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Tags: ASJA, Google Book Settlement, Michael Capobianco, NWU

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2 Responses to “Webcast: Google Book Settlement Workshop – 1/20/2010”

Daniel Reetz Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 10:15 pm

Thanks for posting the audio, but I can’t get it to load beyond the ten minute mark. I’ve tried several browsers/operating system combinations. Are things working on your end?
sfwadmin Says:
January 27th, 2010 at 11:52 am

Daniel,

I updated the plug in that allows the audio to play on the site today. I don’t know if that was an issue with you being able to get past the 10 minute mark.

If you are looking at the audio player the green bar indicates how far the download of the audio file to your cache has progressed. You can’t move the playback beyond the green bar so as the green bar progresses you can move farther into the file.

Please let me know at webmaster at sfwa dot org if you are still having troubles and I’ll investigate further.