1. GOOGLE’S IMPACT ON CANADA: SOME OBSERVATIONS Michael E. Unsworth Canadian Studies Librarian MSU Libraries unsworth@msu.edu

2. FULL DISCLOSURE: I USE GOOGLE…A LOT

3. OUTLINE Google’s Canadian Operations Google’s Philosophy Google’s Business Model Impact on Cultural /Heritage Industry /Establishment: –National Digital Strategy –Google Book Search Settlement Privacy Issues –Google Book Search –Google Street View The Future

4. GOOGLE’S CANADIAN OPERATIONS

5. MORE AGGRESSIVE CANADIAN PRESENCE https://services.google.com/advertisers/ca/

6. PHILOSOPHY

7. “If Google had been a family member in my youth, it would have been the crackpot uncle with all the cockamamie notions.” Ron Petrie, " Ready to Go for a Spin with Uncle Google," Regina Leader Post, Oct. 14, 2010: A3

8. CANADIAN SUCCESS STORY

9. BUSINESS PLAN

10. VALIDATED BY B.C. COURT

11. IMPACT OF THE CANADIAN CULTURAL / HERITAGE INDUSTRY / ESTABLISHMENT

12. NATIONAL CANADIAN DIGITAL STRATEGY: GOOGLE’S VIEW

14. BUNGLING OF THE PURCHASE OF “PAPER OF RECORD”

15. NET NEUTRALITY BACKSLIDING

16. CANADIAN FEARS ABOUT GOOGLE’S STANCE ON DIGITAL STRATEGY

17. NATIONAL CANADIAN DIGITAL STRATEGY: OTHER PROPOSALS

18. GOOGLE BOOK SETTLEMENT

19. GOOGLE BOOKS: PUBLIC DOMAIN

21. GOOGLE BOOKS: IN-COPYRIGHT (1)

22. GOOGLE BOOKS: IN-COPYRIGHT (2)

23. COPYRIGHT IS THE ISSUE

24. REACTIONS IN CANADA

25. 1.It violates a number of international intellectual property law and also trade agreements. Most grievously, it replaces a right to reproduce with a “right to remuneration 2.It wrongly included Canadian authors in the settlement. Canadian copyright law differs substantially in a number of areas 3.It “does not account for the reality of Québécois and Canadian French-language authors among the Author sub-class.” 4.It did not represent the interests of Canadian academic authors who generally value the public’s access to works over monetization

26. PRIVACY ISSUES

27. GOOGLE BOOK SETTLEMENT Google would have “unprecedented power to observe and record reading practices in a manner that has never before been possible.”

28. STREET VIEW

32. “…our experts found many instances of personal information … collected in Canada by Google…I consider the matter to be well-founded and still unresolved. [original emphasis]well-founded

33. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

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