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...Google spokeswoman Megan Quinn wrote in an e-mail: “From Google??s perspective, it is important to get a good education, and to that end, academic achievement is an important factor we look at for candidates of all job positions...
Piracy, as Goldenberg defines it, can be good or bad. Google??s use might be fair, and it might not. But failing to secure permission is hardly determinative...
Adam Goldenberg writes in “Scan, Copy, Print” (column, Dec. 2) that Google??s new Print Project is piracy. By his logic, he is also a pirate. As a journalist and a student, he has to quote copyrighted written works all the time in order to write articles and papers. He likely does so without permission...
Goldenberg is thus dead wrong when he says that Google Print necessarily takes control away from authors and “compromises the spirit...of copyright.” If Google??s use is fair, the authors have no such control to begin with, and fair use is entirely consonant with copyright’s purpose. Google??s use is piracy only in the sense that fair use quoting is piracy. In fact, Google does not even have to provide an opt-out if its use is fair...
Certainly, reasonable people can disagree about whether Google??s copying is fair use. Google??s service might impair copyright holders’ ability to license and get paid for this use, but it also likely promotes book sales and will increase the public’s access to creative works. Google??s service itself is a form of creativity that we might want to protect...