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...launched “Google Print,” an initiative to digitize and make available online the vast holdings of the libraries of several major public and university libraries, including Harvard. Nevertheless, some publishers protested Google’s decision to digitize print works on the grounds of copyright infringement. Google, for its part, allowed publishers to instruct it which books not to scan at all. While we understand the concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind...
...Randall writes in the novel. “Sometimes I comb through my long springy curls and pretend that the hand holding the comb is hers. But I don’t know what that looks like.”But the hands holding the copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall’s parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...Copyright 2006 by John Updike. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher
...really intense processes that have to be perfect," says Lonergan. Just as fine have been the cultural calibrations of the project. In working with the artists, Perkins and Croft have had to traverse the country by plane, 4WD and e-mail, signing off on designs while negotiating sensitive copyright issues with Paris; in one case, an artist's contract couldn't be signed until the floodwaters had receded from her remote community. "It's not only a cross-nation collaboration," says Perkins. "It's inter-cultural as well, and then also between the strands of architecture, curatorship and the arts...
...Copyright holders are afraid of computers becoming copy machines, phone companies are concerned that Google is using their lines for its own profits, and even the government has worried that encryption technology might someday endanger its ability to enforce the law. In each case a suggestion has been made that, through rules or fines, makes invention expensive, creating long term costs that are impossible to foresee but potentially disastrous...