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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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.
Web giant is spending $120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.
The Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 S6500 could make its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, according to a leaked promotional image.
MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, including Asteroids.
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.