Comments on: Google's battle over library books

As the search giant pushes ahead with its book-scanning project, publishers are crying copyright foul, not fair use.

[hitachi]

Screw Google

Screw Google. I hope they lose any lawsuit on their questionable practices. Counting down the days until they go bust.

Good riddance to that crappy company.

[hitachi]

Screw Google

Screw Google. I hope they lose any lawsuit on their questionable practices. Counting down the days until they go bust.

Good riddance to that crappy company.

[spytrdr]

Google will lose this case

they claim it's "fair use", it's NOT, sorry.
in any case, world libraries and publishing houses should digitize their own collections and offer them on their OWN sites, or perhaps network together and form some sort of "unilibrary" (universal library).
why they are giving everything away to this insanely overvalued startup ran by 2 bozos is beyond me.

[spytrdr]

Google will lose this case

they claim it's "fair use", it's NOT, sorry.
in any case, world libraries and publishing houses should digitize their own collections and offer them on their OWN sites, or perhaps network together and form some sort of "unilibrary" (universal library).
why they are giving everything away to this insanely overvalued startup ran by 2 bozos is beyond me.

[mess481]

Startup

Why they are giving everything away to this insanely overvalued startup ran by 2 bozos is beyond me.
Nino - http://www.referatedirector.com

[mess481]

Startup

Why they are giving everything away to this insanely overvalued startup ran by 2 bozos is beyond me.
Nino - http://www.referatedirector.com

[sancat]

Once again, this is not about copyright but distribution rights

What we are seeing, once more, is a battle over who should distribute content. If you read carefully, the sue is being filed by a copyright association, the MPAA or RIAA of the books' world.
The bottom of the issue, is which channel is going to be used to distribute content. Whatever the channel, it will share revenues with the authors of the content. This is another version of the grokster trial, where old, monopolistic and powerful lobbies are trying to suppress a competitor, using whatever they have handy.

[sancat]

Once again, this is not about copyright but distribution rights

What we are seeing, once more, is a battle over who should distribute content. If you read carefully, the sue is being filed by a copyright association, the MPAA or RIAA of the books' world.
The bottom of the issue, is which channel is going to be used to distribute content. Whatever the channel, it will share revenues with the authors of the content. This is another version of the grokster trial, where old, monopolistic and powerful lobbies are trying to suppress a competitor, using whatever they have handy.

[spytrdr]

why give the content to google.com sites???

i think it's extremely idiotic for libraries and publishing houses to be giving all their content away to Google, so they digitize it AND HOST IT (!!!) on google.com sites, thus increasing the traffic to google.com properties.
it's about TRAFFIC, libraries who participate in this project don't seem to get it.

[spytrdr]

why give the content to google.com sites???

i think it's extremely idiotic for libraries and publishing houses to be giving all their content away to Google, so they digitize it AND HOST IT (!!!) on google.com sites, thus increasing the traffic to google.com properties.
it's about TRAFFIC, libraries who participate in this project don't seem to get it.

[drborchers]

What's Next, Indexing Software?

Google is wrong. What they are trying to do is not fair use, and it is not even cool to make publishers opt out. What would all the software companies do if Google wanted to rip apart every program out there so they could index it and show everyone how it worked?
Even so, I don't think the publishers have much to lose in terms of people stealing books. There are a lot of free use books online, and even if a book was indexed it is still not worth copying and printing it. Have you ever tried to print an entire book on your printer? How many ink cartridges is that? My boss did it once and it was not a pretty sight even with a laser printer. Reading it online, on your computer, or even on those useless ebook readers is not worth the time or effort, even if it only costs <50 cents for a DVD disk. $6-10 for a paperback or $20 for a hardback (better yet- used books) gives you the freedom to read wherever and whenever you want.
All in all, it would be good to search and sample books online, especially educational or historical works, lets just make sure that Google asks first.

[drborchers]

What's Next, Indexing Software?

Google is wrong. What they are trying to do is not fair use, and it is not even cool to make publishers opt out. What would all the software companies do if Google wanted to rip apart every program out there so they could index it and show everyone how it worked?
Even so, I don't think the publishers have much to lose in terms of people stealing books. There are a lot of free use books online, and even if a book was indexed it is still not worth copying and printing it. Have you ever tried to print an entire book on your printer? How many ink cartridges is that? My boss did it once and it was not a pretty sight even with a laser printer. Reading it online, on your computer, or even on those useless ebook readers is not worth the time or effort, even if it only costs <50 cents for a DVD disk. $6-10 for a paperback or $20 for a hardback (better yet- used books) gives you the freedom to read wherever and whenever you want.
All in all, it would be good to search and sample books online, especially educational or historical works, lets just make sure that Google asks first.

[petekortum]

In Google We Trust

Do not anger him.......or he may move planet earth to a distant galaxy.

[petekortum]

In Google We Trust

Do not anger him.......or he may move planet earth to a distant galaxy.