{"id":84,"date":"2005-09-29T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/09\/29\/tim-oreillys-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T06:27:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T10:27:28","slug":"tim-oreillys-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/09\/29\/tim-oreillys-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a150\"><\/a>  Nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/28\/opinion\/28oreilly.html\">op-ed <\/a>by Tim O&#8217;Reilly in today&#8217;s NYTimes. Tenor: &#8220;Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement,&#8221; and: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to see authors buy into the old-school protectionism of the Authors Guild, not realizing they&#8217;re acting against their own self-interest. Their resistance can come only from a failure to understand the nature of the program. Google Library is intended to help readers discover copyrighted works, not to give copies away. It&#8217;s a tremendous service to authors that will help them beat the dismal odds of publishing as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice op-ed by Tim O&#8217;Reilly in today&#8217;s NYTimes. Tenor: &#8220;Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement,&#8221; and: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to see authors buy into the old-school protectionism of the Authors Guild, not realizing they&#8217;re acting against their own self-interest. Their resistance can come only from a failure to understand the nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}