I couldn't help but post this. The Authors Guild, the folks suing Google, have written up talking points so that you can back them up if you happen to go to a dinner party this weekend (their words, not mine).
Listen to this little gem.
"Google is digitizing countless texts, your books, in their entirety -- every sentence, every carefully chosen word -- without your permission."
It sounds like you should tack on, "and taking lunch money from small children" onto that sentence.
Lessig weighs in on the matter with a nice article over on his blog.
2 comments:
So... where's the full text? I tried finding it, because I, for one, would like to pirate books. But when I went to google's print.google.com, or whatever it's called, I could only see a few pages, like Amazon. It wouldn't let me see any more than like 10 pages. So what's the big whoop, dog?
Pirate is such a loaded word. I prefer information liberator.
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