/lit/ - Literature

>>10095703
>https://newrepublic.com/article/72706/the-love-culture
There's the actual article.

Lessig it seems didn't like the settlement because rather than combat the original hilarious claim that each scan Google made created a new pirated copy that Google was then liable for, Google settled with the guilds and left the abscess at the root of the issue untouched. Instead, Lessig believed the problem was compounded because a tech titan had affirmed the perverse digital copyright model.

An interesting facet of the article is how various elements of a non-fiction work are individually licensed. I wasn't aware of this aspect.