[IP] more on more Google
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From: Cindy Cohn <cindy@xxxxxxx>
Date: November 11, 2005 3:05:35 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more Google
Hi Dave,
Dan Steinberg says:
I do not claim to know in advance the results of any legal
challenges issued (and the arguments on both sides are quite
interesting). But at the end of the day, doesn't this all boil
down to a company (and its supporters) telling us:
"it's for your own good"
"it's not really that bad"
I'm guessing that the "us" here is authors and publishers.
I think that if the debate gets framed as a binary choice between
authors and publishers on the one hand and Google on the other, it
would be a shame. There is another interest here -- those of "us"
who are trying to find the right thing to read. I submit that we
"book searchers," more colloquially known as "readers" are an
important part of this debate and that Google isn't really the same
as us.
Whatever else one thinks about Google Print, it is unequivocally good
for readers. I submit that allowing authors and publishers to
control who or how easily we can find their works by controlling the
search tools available to readers is unfair to "us."
Cindy
still not sure why I cannot resist this topic
and happy to discuss other issues where we think Google is wrong:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001425.php
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