BBC: “US objects to Google book deal”
It’s the reaction of the “Justice” Department to this:
CNN: “Google lets you custom-print millions of books“
Punishing People for Offering Services
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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/2009/09/14/the-libertarian-case-against-the-google-book-search-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).