Awesome. Thank you for the opinion. Always neat to see how people involved without asking are asked view these things.
John Buttimer > On Nov 18, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Raymond Feist/New ATT <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On Nov 17, 2013, at 7:51 PM, John Buttimer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey Ray, with google winning their suit, what's your opinion on it? >> >> Referring to google being allowed to scan 20 million plus books now without >> legal repercussions. >> >> John Buttimer > > I'm uncertain at this point. Authors Guild brought the suit and I wan't a > part to it. > > If Google does as it states, just creates this data base for searches, and > you want information on a topic and you can get it that way, fair use > applies. it's the idea of entire libraries being converted to digital form > without permission that's made AG twitchy. If people contrive a way to > download entire titles off Google's database, expect more lawsuits. > > Best, R.E.F. > > > >
