Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:51:31 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: copyright implications
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> ronkean at juno.com 12/24/04 11:48:52 PM >>>
>
>On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:05:49 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
><MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>writes:
>
>>
>> Rather than relying on secondary sources, let's go the
>horse's
>> mouth:
>> http://print.google.com/googleprint/about.html
>> https://print.google.com/publisher/
>> https://print.google.com/publisher/online_faq#overview
>>
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==
>excerpt from the google faq:
>
>We respect copyright law and the tremendous creative effort
>authors put
>into their work. So if we've scanned a library book that's still in
>copyright, you'll only be able to see a few snippets of text from
>the
>book. To read the whole book, you can use the "Buy the
>Book" links to
>purchase it online or the "Find this in a library" link to look for
>a
>local library that has it.
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>
>O.K., that answers my question.  Thanks.

When I was at the Frankfurt Buchmesse in October, one of my
appointments was with Google regarding this.

One way to look at is that it's rather similar to Amazon's "Look in
side the book" feature.  The difference is that if you're searching for
references to, say, Post modern theory in the early works of Tom Clancy,
with Amazon, all you get are books; with Google that plus web hits.

Think of it as the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

mjw

>
>Ron Kean
>