BBC: “US objects to Google book deal”
It’s the reaction of the “Justice” Department to this:
Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker
Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker
BBC: “US objects to Google book deal”
It’s the reaction of the “Justice” Department to this:
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I wonder if the wizards at Google are self-aware enough to realize the irony after their history of consistent support for big government.
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org.....arch-deal/
Thanks, Jonathan. That’s a very helpful posting by Tim Lee. I share his distrust of “class action suits” of this sort. The agreement was a bad solution to bad situation; there should be no problem at all with scanning and making available out-of-copyright materials (or perhaps for those for which no copyright holder is identifiable after a good-faith search).