Ross Singer wrote:
|... Pierre Keller ... 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?
Another point of view: one can now clearly see the difference in access
between a commercial entity doing the digitizing and an "open" entity
doing it for the benefit of all humanity both now and in the future. I
think the question had been asked earlier on this list, but Google's
access "answer" seems pretty definitive about "who controls the data
controls the rules".
Harvey
Received on Sat Sep 08 2007 - 14:23:00 EDT