Today's New York Times reports on the major settlement that Google reached in court regarding the scanning of entire books: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/technology/internet/29google.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Google&st=cse&oref=slogin
While it will make wonderful things available to the world, Google will also make massive amounts of money on the project. The settlement still does not make clear whether Google's prior unauthorized scanning was permissible under copyright law. Hmmmm...
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Thanks for posting that article. I hadn't seen it. My original thought was that putting all the documents online would be good. The article pointed out some potential weaknesses. Thanks
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