{"id":3037,"date":"2005-08-19T01:45:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/08\/19\/a-correction-re-google-print\/"},"modified":"2005-08-19T01:45:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T05:45:03","slug":"a-correction-re-google-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/08\/19\/a-correction-re-google-print\/","title":{"rendered":"A Correction Re: Google Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1285'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still want to do more substantive writing on Google Print, but for now a short correction.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/08\/12#a1267\">Earlier<\/a>,<br \/>\nI suggested that public domain books would be shown in full, but Google<br \/>\nallows people to see only a few pages from other books for a given<br \/>\nsearch.&nbsp; They do &#8211; but only books explicitly authorized as<br \/>\npart of the <a href=\"http:\/\/print.google.com\/googleprint\/screenshots.html#bookpage\">Google publisher program.<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor all other books (now, all others that publishers haven&#8217;t explicitly<br \/>\nforbidden from inclusion), Google only shows bibliographic information<br \/>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/print.google.com\/googleprint\/screenshots.html#excerpt\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">a few sentences<\/span><\/a> surrounding the search term.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This seems even less objectionable and a particularly relevant point in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/classes\/siva\/archives\/001889.html\">Siva&#8217;s hypo involving poetry.<\/a><br \/>\nI know I shouldn&#8217;t fight the hypo, but I think this greatly narrows the<br \/>\narray of unique variations Google would have to deal with in order to<br \/>\nnot show<br \/>\nthe &#8220;heart&#8221; of a work.&nbsp; This also further demonstrates why it&#8217;s critical to<br \/>\nfocus on what Google actually displays, rather than the intermediate<br \/>\ncopying of the entire book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still want to do more substantive writing on Google Print, but for now a short correction.&nbsp; Earlier, I suggested that public domain books would be shown in full, but Google allows people to see only a few pages from other books for a given search.&nbsp; They do &#8211; but only books explicitly authorized as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}