http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/french-prime-minister-endorses-google-bibliotheque-nationale-plan/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/french-prime-minister-endorses-google-bibliotheque-nationale-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-1145013 Mike Perry Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:37:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=28639#comment-1145013 When you consider that we have books reaching back thousands of years, Google's zeal to grab those written recently enough to still be in copyright looks a bit suspicious. We could easily spend the next ten years doing a decent job of scanning and organizing pre-1922 books, more than enough time to sort out the issues of in-copyright orphan texts in ways that are fair to everyone. When you consider that we have books reaching back thousands of years, Google’s zeal to grab those written recently enough to still be in copyright looks a bit suspicious. We could easily spend the next ten years doing a decent job of scanning and organizing pre-1922 books, more than enough time to sort out the issues of in-copyright orphan texts in ways that are fair to everyone.

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