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Google wins the Book Search suit: declared fair use
- Touche 13y agoFYI, here's the Google Books landing page: http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=EfyEUvv2Fqv54AOH6IDACQ&ved=0CBAQqS4oDQ http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=Efy... What was once a nobel effort to index old books has turned into a front for the Google Play Store. Sad.
- eliben 13y agoI don't get it. I often search for technical information and get to stuff indexed from within books on books.google.com - that's really awesome, and I'm not sure what you find sad here?
- pyre 13y agoThe parent is sad that Google Play is on the front page of books.google.com, and Google's 'noble effort' is now linked to their commercial Google Play product. This is silly though. Google has their "book search" product and their "buy books through Google Play" product. It's reasonable to assume that some people might end up at books.google.com when looking for the Google Play books section.
- JaggedJax 13y agoI don't see anything particularly wrong with that landing page. They have separated the two and if you do a search, you don't get any Play results. Seeing as they have two products related to books, it makes sense to list them both at books.google.com
- dannyr 13y agoIt gives you to buy books or search for books. What's wrong with it?
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- Touche 13y agoIt's like having a library run by a book retailer, with advertisements inside the library.
- mtgx 13y agoNow they just need to fight off the TPP agreement, just like they did with SOPA, so it doesn't nullify this win for them.
- AnotherDesigner 13y agoCould someone here please explain why this isn't copyright infringement? Aren't they taking other peoples work without permission, scanning it and making it publicly available? Also, presumably all of this works draws more traffic to Googles website, bringing them profits from advertising? I can imagine if a company that was less powerful than Google did this somebody would have huge fines and possible imprisonment. And please spare me your "information should be free" arguments or the possible "benefits" to society. I'm well aware of those arguments but current law protects the individual against society raiding their work for its own benefit. Its a basic foundation that so much of our law has been built upon. So I'm interested in things as they are now, current copyright law, and not how you would like it to be as an outsider that would profit from more liberal copyright laws.
- ceejayoz 13y agoThey're not presenting the entire book, are they? I thought it was just short excerpts matching your search queries - essentially the same thing they do for (also copryighted) websites.
- AnotherDesigner 13y agoI really don't know. I don't use a lot of Google services.
- ceejayoz 13y agoMaybe it'd be a good idea to know what the service does before criticizing it?
- jamesbritt 13y agoThat's correct, though I 've managed to read useful amounts of a book (several pages) in response to a search such that it was much the same as if I had the book on a shelf, flipped open to the part I needed, got what I wanted, and closed the book. In other words, it saved me the expense of having to get the whole book.
- kevando 13y agoWhat ever the opposite of 'turning over' that's what Aaron Swartz is doing right now..