Re: More on Google and publishers

["Tracy L. Thompson" <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>]

The post is attributed to Cory.

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At 06:37 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________
>
> 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.
>
> ####