Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cracking the Google Settlement

I have been labouring with the Google Settlement for some days now, gathering the views of publishers and authors, hearing their fears about copyright, listening to authors talk about how to 'claim' their books etc etc. It is a very complicated subject, but I think I've finally cracked it. The way I see it is like this:

'You put last book in,
Your last book out,
In, out, in, out, shake it all about
You do the Google Boogle
And you turn around
That's what it's all about!

Chorus:
Oh, the Google Google Boogle
Oh, the Google Google Boogle
Oh, the Google Google Boogle
Pay low, rights lost ra! ra! ra!

You put your next book in,
Your next book out,
In, out, in, out, shake it all about
You do the Google Boogle
And you turn around
That's what it's all about!

Oh, the Google Google Boogle...'

....and continue for the next 27 verses until you've run out of money to pay the lawyers.

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