Presentation by Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley) explains why the Google Book Search settlement is tantamount to copyright legislation and represents an effort to reform copyright law to overcome difficulties in achieving well-balanced copyright legislation, such as that affecting orphan works. Notwithstanding some benefits that would come from approval of this settlement, there are reasons to doubt whether such a substantial reordering of copyright default rules can or should be accomplished through the class action settlement process.

1. GOOGLE BOOK SETTLEMENT AS PRIVATE © REFORM Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley © Culture, © History Conf. Jan. 6, 2010 Jan. 6, 2010 (c) culture, (c) history conf