amicus
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Key words search: Google Books Library
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
I watched a program last evening on C-Span 2 Book TV that was recorded 10/25/06 at the National Press Club. It was a moderator led panel discussion of the Google project to digitalize twenty five million books in a decades long project.
There were six or seven panelists, one a Harvard Professor, as Harvard University is having its entire library digitalized by Google. There was a copyright attorney and an author but I don’t recall the status of the other panel members.
The discussion centered around copyright protection for intellectual property, books, films, music, et cetera and the continuing development of digital scanning and storage. There was an strong opinion that the digitalizing of written works was a good thing but should be done by Government and not Private Enterprise, the same tired old argument of the left against the right, free enterprise versus command economies.
If you do the same keyword search I did (mentioned above) you can gather all the various viewpoints for yourself, but the program brought to light that the Author’s Guild has filed suit in Federal Court to prevent Google from continuing the project.
One of the arguments made in the discussion used video recordings as an analogy for book digitalization, in that the film industry claimed they would be destroyed if people were permitted to own and used video recording devices for television programs and even rental movies.
They mentioned the Peer to Peer online file sharing of MP3 music audio’s and video’s (Napster) that was stopped by the recording industry as a protection of their business and compared the efforts of film makers and music companies to print publishers who want to stop Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from compiling digital libraries or world literature.
After reading the Google contract over a year ago, I was satisfied about copyright protection enough to go ahead and submit two of my works to Google Library and will add another out of print book and future works as I think it is yet another avenue to publicize one’s creative work and make it available to a wider audience.
I have extra Google Email accounts if anyone wishes one, email me at amicusveritas@Google.com and I will send you an application.
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Amicus…
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
I watched a program last evening on C-Span 2 Book TV that was recorded 10/25/06 at the National Press Club. It was a moderator led panel discussion of the Google project to digitalize twenty five million books in a decades long project.
There were six or seven panelists, one a Harvard Professor, as Harvard University is having its entire library digitalized by Google. There was a copyright attorney and an author but I don’t recall the status of the other panel members.
The discussion centered around copyright protection for intellectual property, books, films, music, et cetera and the continuing development of digital scanning and storage. There was an strong opinion that the digitalizing of written works was a good thing but should be done by Government and not Private Enterprise, the same tired old argument of the left against the right, free enterprise versus command economies.
If you do the same keyword search I did (mentioned above) you can gather all the various viewpoints for yourself, but the program brought to light that the Author’s Guild has filed suit in Federal Court to prevent Google from continuing the project.
One of the arguments made in the discussion used video recordings as an analogy for book digitalization, in that the film industry claimed they would be destroyed if people were permitted to own and used video recording devices for television programs and even rental movies.
They mentioned the Peer to Peer online file sharing of MP3 music audio’s and video’s (Napster) that was stopped by the recording industry as a protection of their business and compared the efforts of film makers and music companies to print publishers who want to stop Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from compiling digital libraries or world literature.
After reading the Google contract over a year ago, I was satisfied about copyright protection enough to go ahead and submit two of my works to Google Library and will add another out of print book and future works as I think it is yet another avenue to publicize one’s creative work and make it available to a wider audience.
I have extra Google Email accounts if anyone wishes one, email me at amicusveritas@Google.com and I will send you an application.
Comments?
Amicus…
It's amazing C-SPAN manages to exist at all, but I suppose since it's not advertising driven it doesn't require much of a viewer base, and covering government proceedings is pretty cheap in terms of content creation.
