If you’re interested in reading more about copyright, internet and privacy law in an informal setting with some other very smart students, check out NYC Information Law:
NYC Information Law began as a joint project between the Columbia Law School Society for Law, Science and Technology and the NYU Law School InfoLaw Student Association. Today, its membership includes similar groups from nearly all NYC schools dedicated to the intersection between intellectual property, technology, privacy, communications, and the law. This website is a compendium of news and New York City events of interest to the members of nycinfolaw.org.
You don’t have to be a law student to attend, and they already have a reading group scheduled to meet on September 16th, which I’ve added to the CC&C calendar. But also consider signing up for their mailing list to stay on top of their announcements.
NYCInfoLaw have posted the readings:
http://lists.nycinfolaw.org/pipermail/list-nycinfolaw.org/2009-September/000074.html
How to Fix the Google Books Search Settlement
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=james_grimmelmann
[Come for the "five overriding principles" listed conveniently in the
introduction; stay for the rest of the analysis if you have time after
looking over the rest of the readings]
The Parties’ Line:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6664937.html [short]
What if it fails?
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6660295.html [short,
includes nice timeline to bring you up to speed]
11th-Hour Filings Oppose Google’s Book Settlement
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/technology/internet/09google.html?_r=1
[short!]
EXTRA CREDIT:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281 [Robert Darnton's article in the
New York Review of Books takes a long-form, almost literary approach
and is widely cited in the discussion. Professor Darnton will be
speaking at Columbia on the 17th in a free public event found on your
friendly NYCInfoLaw web calendar.]
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6685412.html [Recent survey:
what do stakeholders think?]
The Notice
http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/r/view_notice [Shorter than the
settlement. Use this for reference -- I'd not suggest reading it
cover to cover.]