It strikes me how amazingly naive the librarians involved were. You'd think that they would know at least a little about copyright law and how it applied to the digitisation process. That Google seemed as naive was also a surprise, although I imagine that they just thought it would be covered by Fair Use. It's also interesting to see where the problems were. If Google had left alone copyrighted material and, well, anything in French and German, it might have been a very different story.
Sunday 24 February 2013
Google Books on Storyville
As part of a Stoyville series on the internet, the first was about Google's attempts to digitise the whole printed word.
It strikes me how amazingly naive the librarians involved were. You'd think that they would know at least a little about copyright law and how it applied to the digitisation process. That Google seemed as naive was also a surprise, although I imagine that they just thought it would be covered by Fair Use. It's also interesting to see where the problems were. If Google had left alone copyrighted material and, well, anything in French and German, it might have been a very different story.
It strikes me how amazingly naive the librarians involved were. You'd think that they would know at least a little about copyright law and how it applied to the digitisation process. That Google seemed as naive was also a surprise, although I imagine that they just thought it would be covered by Fair Use. It's also interesting to see where the problems were. If Google had left alone copyrighted material and, well, anything in French and German, it might have been a very different story.
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