[WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of what we do and how we use Google Books? http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/ Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of what we do and how we use Google Books?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and those taking action against it. Anyone here know what this means in terms of

[WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians. Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching Aboriginal and Encyclopedia in the search engine. He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Sage Ross
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians. This story says the SMH one is misleading: http://www.inquisitr.com/57105/aus-media-gets-ed-story-wrong/ The

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems a settlement has been reached between Google Books and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Fred Bauder
Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians. Aboriginal man Steve Hodder-Watt recently discovered the US-based site by searching Aboriginal and Encyclopedia in the search engine. He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread geni
2010/1/17 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com: Notice that it's opt-out, which for a real orphan work means no one will opt-out. Preview is better than nothing, for us. (It was unrealistic to expect Google to be able to offer full downloads.) Are orphan books that common? In most cases they have a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Books settlement reached

2010-01-17 Thread Andrew Gray
2010/1/17 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2010/1/17 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com: Notice that it's opt-out, which for a real orphan work means no one will opt-out. Preview is better than nothing, for us. (It was unrealistic to expect Google to be able to offer full downloads.) Are orphan books

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: If censoring some things (like the most offensive sorts of racial vilification you could possibly find), and refusing to censor other things (like an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google bows to censorship

2010-01-17 Thread Christopher Grant
(from smh article) Mr Newhouse believes the site would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter. The plot thickens... Sure their articles racist and are basically designed offend everyone, however I personally don't feel conformable with the government being able to block a