On 9/6/07, Pierre Keller - BCU Lausanne <Pierre.Keller_at_bcu.unil.ch> wrote:
> Yes, Google is blocking full texts for countries outside the USA,
> even if they are in public domain. It's not against Canadians
> (because its also against Europa, and, and...) it's in order to
> keep them for US citizens only.
>
Er, that seems strange. Wouldn't it make more sense that they're only
available to US citizens because Google is more familiar with US
Copyright law and hasn't gotten around to dealing with the
complexities of expanding that to other countries?
-Ross.
Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 07:38:31 EDT