Id like to see google give the book content away - including the ability to mash up. They have enough money to just do it for the greater good, and write it of

Id like to see google give the book content away - including the ability to mash up. They have enough money to just do it for the greater good, and write it off as advertising / PR budget [while gaining revenue from the searches due to their market dominance] Along with this I think there needs to be a change in law to match the change in technology - Perhaps creative works should simply fall into the public domain after n years has passed? Extrapolating... I'm not sure what this means for say LoTR, the Bible and baroque music. Putting religion aside, these have a large place in the social consciousness, so should effectively be owned by the public [yes, not a logical inference] Hmm.. a Cathedral is clearly a creative work. Perhaps they are already owned by some kind of public trust, in effect [by subsidies]