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So all the copyright holders have to do is put a robots.txt file at the beginning of the book, and all is good? And really, there is no law that I'm aware of r
by derekp7 11y ago
So all the copyright holders have to do is put a robots.txt file at the beginning of the book, and all is good? And really, there is no law that I'm aware of requiring Google (or anyone else) to honor robots.txt.
- notahacker 11y agoI don't think robots.txt has any legal standing, but I do think the fact that Google is willing to respect requests not to index content from everyone except print publishers of paid content is indicative of bad faith on their part.
- nkurz 11y agoDo you have reason to believe that they do not respect requests from print publishers not to scan their books? https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/3365282?rd=1 https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/3365282?rd=1 https://www.google.com/googlebooks/publisher_library.html#options2 https://www.google.com/googlebooks/publisher_library.html#op... Regardless of whether they have a legal obligation to do so, they certainly make it sound like they obey such requests.
- Zikes 11y agorobots.txt actually has little to nothing to do with copyright, and more to do with "unauthorized computer access" which is protected by the CPAA. It's a guard against accidental access or publishing of sensitive data - which isn't necessarily copyrighted but has other legal protections - as well as placing an unwanted burden on the server.