{"id":3047,"date":"2005-09-21T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T23:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/09\/21\/shocking-making-all-the-google-print"},"modified":"2005-09-21T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T23:05:48","slug":"shocking-making-all-the-google-print-facts-clear-really-does-make-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/09\/21\/shocking-making-all-the-google-print-facts-clear-really-does-make-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking: Making All The Google Print Facts Clear Really Does Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

So many people (including, unfortunately, myself<\/a>
\nat times) have misreported precisely what Google Print does with books
\nnot in the Publisher Program.  When people know what the Authors
\nGuild is really claiming, I’d bet many of the most sincere copyright
\nmaximalists\/neoclassicists\/physical-property-equivalence-makers would
\nagree that Google’s in the right.<\/p>\n

Case in point: James Delong.<\/a><\/p>\n

“To show only the limited info described by Google would, IMHO, pretty
\nclearly be a fair use. So the authors must be objecting to the fact
\nthat an entire book is being copied without permission, even if it is
\nthen hidden in an electronic vault. But what is the objection, if only
\nsnippets are shown? Is it a fear of Napsterization — that once the
\ndigital copy is made it could escape into the world? Or is it simply a
\nnaked assertion of right — “copyright law says no copying, so you must
\npay me to do it, even if it would actually be in my interest to have
\nsnippets made available.”” (emphasis added)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Well put, James.  He ultimately believes that “Google might well
\nwin a decision” because their intermediate copying reduces transaction
\ncosts. I’m not sure I agree on that narrow view of the fair use
\ninterest, but I think I share his basic sentiment.  This isn’t
\nabout Napsterization, this isn’t about “copyright nihilism”<\/a> – it’s a case of copyright holders’ overreaching in ways that go against the public’s interests.<\/p>\n

See also, EFF’s press release<\/a> today, pointing to Jonathan Band’s informative legal analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many people (including, unfortunately, myself at times) have misreported precisely what Google Print does with books not in the Publisher Program.  When people know what the Authors Guild is really claiming, I’d bet many of the most sincere copyright maximalists\/neoclassicists\/physical-property-equivalence-makers would agree that Google’s in the right. Case in point: James Delong. “To show […]<\/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-3047","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\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}