A very long blog post on Boing Boing today:
(http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/14/why_publishing_shoul.html) on
Google's library project. I have pasted in the first paragraph
below. The post is unattributed, but sounds to my ear like Cory Doctorow.
Joe Esposito
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Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google
Google's new Book Search promises to save writers' and publishers' asses
by putting their books into the index of works that are visible to
searchers who get all their information from the Internet. In response,
publishers and writers are suing Google, claiming that this ass-saving is
in fact a copyright violation. When you look a little closer, though, you
see that the writer/publisher objections to Google amount to nothing more
than rent-seeking: an attempt to use legal threats to milk Google for some
of the money it will make by providing this vital service to us
ink-stained scribblers.
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