GBks stepping on the dragon’s toes
January 12, 2010 at 10:43 am Leave a comment
Explain me this, GoogleBooks is still in hot water with it’s omni-tude of steamroll vacumning literary works for digitization until individual copyrightholders pip up and say No, you can’t have mine. Considering there are more than 50 million books officially published (who knows how many more unofficially) that does not include magazines, graphic novels and other printable creative works, and you can see the potential of having all that accessible online anywhere in the world, but also the monopoly GBks might have over the literary history of mankind.
If the squakers in the US think the GBks settlement is a bad idea for being passively affirmed until positively opted out of, know that the proceedings against Google have not stopped the work of the machine. Writers in China are upset that GBks have scanned their works without permission. What does Google do? It apologises and says it will hand over the list of Chinese books it has digitized – not that it will delete them from the database. I hope the Chinese aren’t suckers.
Entry filed under: e-books, It's bizness, Literary related news. Tags: Googlebooks, Intellectual Property.
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