All of these big ideas that Google and Yahoo have about making everything available have to also follow copyright rules. Right now, what that means is a big mess. siobhan
Copyright lawsuit challenges Google's vision of digital 'library' Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 09/26/2005 http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0926/p03s01-ussc.html (LOS ANGELES) Book publisher Lisa Grant recently got an e-mail from Google Inc. - the $90 billion Internet search engine. "Hello, Lisa, we understand that you have some concerns about your books being potentially included in the Library Project," it said, referring to Google's well-known bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries, including those at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. The idea: scan all or portions of those collections to make the texts searchable on the Internet for users around the world. "As you already aware," said the notice, explaining a step-by-step procedure, "you can easily exclude books from the Google Library Project." The interchange goes to the heart of a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York last week against Google and its Google Print Project. Brought by the 8,000- member Authors Guild, the suit seeks damages and an injunction to halt Google's project, claiming it violates copyright because authors have not first given permission to use their works. Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenan Jarboe Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age Have-Nots - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc 024.htm It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other things. It also stresses the need to go beyond the one-size-fits-all solution. One of the projects I found most interesting was the "Bookmobile" part of Yahoo's Internet Archive project: The project will do more than just give everyday Internet users full access to some of the world's classic works, says Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. In addition to being available online, the digital books will be included on all of the archive's "Bookmobiles" -- Internet-enabled trucks that print and bind books on demand for the poor and underprivileged. Kahle says those trucks, which have been deployed as far away as Egypt and Uganda, are just the beginning. Using this print-on-demand technology, "we want every school, and every neighborhood library to be a million-book library," says Kahle. As I have tried to stress, its not about the technology - its about access to information and communications. After all, we don't call it the Internet economy, we call it the information economy. Ken Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
