Book Worms?

Kenneth in the 212  Oct 19 09

Is anyone following the saga of Google Books, the Internet behemoth's controversial attempt to scan all out-of-print and orphaned books to make them available again to the world via the Web? I've only read about it in bits and pieces, so I'm open to hearing other, more-educated opinions on the subject. But the whole backlash against it sure sounds like a bunch of sour grapes. That book publishers are calling it infringement that Google is including snippets of copyrighted works is ridiculous. (Was a card catalog a copyright violation, too?) But it's the books that are no longer copyrighted that really gets me. Full story...

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