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...imagine why my attitude toward Google??s latest online venture might be a little more curmudgeonly than others...
...Google??s Library Project—an effort to create a massive, searchable, online compendium of large portions of the collections of some of the world’s greatest academic libraries (including Harvard’s)—stands to revolutionize the way that books are read, research is conducted, and written knowledge is disseminated across the world. But the manner in which Google has thus far undertaken the project flagrantly disregards the rights of the authors and publishers whose work stands to be digitized. As a result, publishers have sued Google in a number...
...snippets and purchase options are concerned, these ought to be considered necessary in any case, if the project is to avoid slipping completely into the realm of the positively piratical. They fail to account, however, for a truly fundamental precondition for Google??s distributing printed material in this way—that, in the default situation, control remains firmly in the hands of the authors and publishers who own the copyrights of the books in question. Google??s opt-out proposition takes that basic control away from those to whom it rightfully belongs, compromising...
...also got his title on the paper’s bestseller list for at least eight weeks.Google searches not only serve to dig up dirt on public figures; they verge on replacing libraries and phonebooks. Google rivals Gutenberg’s printing press as a contribution to communication and Google??s relevance, like its company’s stock price, is skyrocketing.Vise—along with researcher Mark Malseed—systematically traces the ascent of the Google Empire from its accidental inception on Stanford’s campus to its contemporary initiatives in genetic research. Through...
...Association of American Publishers, which includes more than 300 publishing houses, filed a separate but similar lawsuit in October. Although there has been no further progress on either of the lawsuits, Harvard spokesman John Longbrake wrote in an e-mail that the University believes that “Google??s treatment of in-copyright works is consistent with copyright law.” Google had previously announced that it would allow publishers to remove their books from the project. But Google stipulated that the publishers would have to submit the name of each book that they wanted...