Keeping Google’s tanks off the library lawn
It’s been a busy week. My article on the Google Books settlement (which the BBC headlined as ‘ Keeping Google out of Libraries ‘, even though my point was that Google should not be the only company in the library, and my original title was ‘Keeping Google’s Tanks Off The Library Lawn’), provoked a fair amount of debate, to the point that I ended up having a long chat on the phone with Santiago de la Mora, the company’s director of book partnerships in Europe and writing it up for the BBC website. This is what I had to say… Google is in the middle of a massive project to scan and digitise every book it can get its hands on, whether old or new, and if it gets its way then the US courts will soon endorse an agreement between the search engine giant and the US book industry that will allow it to do this without fear of prosecution for copyright infringement.
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Keeping Google’s tanks off the library lawn
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