tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post9204763930948716711..comments2024-01-20T00:59:08.689+00:00Comments on Brave New World: The Great Book Bank Robbery - DOJ say Not Good EnoughMartyn Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134633193540004531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post-16164890092729466532010-02-05T09:50:27.092+00:002010-02-05T09:50:27.092+00:00I'm growing to the opinion that the book settl...I'm growing to the opinion that the book settlement is turning all works into public domain by default, and that Google hopes to monetise the public domain. That is public domain as in publicly available not without rights. But MP3s have shown availability is all that's needed. <br /><br />When anything is put on the internet it's hard to remove; someone somewhere will have a copy. All Google are doing is providing a sales channel. <br /><br />Fair enough they've outsmarted the publishers on this settlement. It's even worse for British authors as there is a law requiring publishers to send copies of books to British libraries. And it's from libraries that Google are scanning the works. <br /><br />Publishers should start looking at where Google are getting their source material and perhaps explicitly prohibit scanning. Isn't there something about retrieval systems in the verso page of books? There certainly used to be.j purdiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07141166257366384474noreply@blogger.com