Jacob Ward

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The Don Lemon Show · Jacob Ward's Warning | Will A.I. Be The Death of Human Creativity · 19 Mar 2025 podcast

Everybody, the plaintiffs and Google, were sort of tiptoeing right on the edge of a settlement, and a settlement that might have made a big difference. voice-verified

You know, under its terms, Google would have basically paid authors for the right to make their work available online, and authors and publishers would have the right to say, no thank you, to opt out if they wanted to. voice-verified

But this would have been an extremely broad agreement. voice-verified

Not only would it have, you know, future-proofed Google Books, it also would have applied not just to the plaintiffs and not just to American authors and publishers, but basically to all books worldwide. voice-verified

The ultimate in legal protection for this project. voice-verified

So there was a lot of back and forth about this and European governments weighed in. voice-verified

They said, wait a minute, we don't like this. voice-verified

This covers our authors and we're not even parties to this lawsuit. voice-verified

And other groups, other American groups stepped in as well. voice-verified

And eventually on March 22nd, 2011, Judge Denny Chin, federal judge, voice-verified

rejected the settlement. voice-verified

And the reasons he gave, I think, are really, really powerful and important. voice-verified

He said, here's a little quote from it. voice-verified

While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library, that's what Google Books said it was about, would benefit many, the settlement would simply go too far. voice-verified

He said it would reward Google for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission while, and this is the important part, while releasing claims well beyond those presented in the case. voice-verified

So if you think about 2011, that's the year, you know, a lot of stories in the news. voice-verified

That's the shooting, you know, where Gabby Gifford was injured. voice-verified

There's, you know, a ton of events. voice-verified

But when you look specifically at what my beat was that year, and you think about the moment we were in, that was the year that, you know, Facebook, voice-verified

was really being credited for being an agent of democracy, right? voice-verified

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