Will Femia, author of the "Clicked" blog on MSNBC.com, declares today that:
"Lessig is wrong — Lawrence Lessig
is a champion of the Creative Commons movement and an advocate for
loosening copyright restrictions. His current battle is over the
digitization of books. Google wants to scan books into a database to
make the text searchable. You wouldn’t get the whole book in a search,
just an excerpt. Ignoring whether this is a good idea or a handy
utility, this blogger makes a good argument against Google’s plan. For
what it’s worth, there is a larger issue at play as well, which is
whether search engines and other services that surface material from
the Web (like RSS aggregators) are taking advantage of the original
content holders."
There’s more to it than this excerpt, so check out the whole thing if you have the time. Actually, you should probably make the time regardless. This issue will not go away any time soon.
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