Googling literature: The debate goes public

Publishers, authors and Google debated the company's newly-renamed "Google Book Search" plan to digitize the collections of major libraries.
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[Eugene Denson]

Copyright and the Intellectual Advance of Humanity

If we must choose between copyright law and making information
available to humanity, copyright law must go. The prospect of
having the written materials of the world on-line and available to
anyone who wants to examine them is breathtaking and represents
such an intellectual advance that blocking it is unthinkable.
Certainly we should work out some way to compensate creators of
intellectual materials, but that takes second seat to accessibility.

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Go Google!

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