Klarinet Archive - Posting 000308.txt from 2005/08

From: Richard Wang <moose.w6589@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] more about google print - Dan Leeson are you out there?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:59:07 -0400

Actually, this is nothing new; Amazon and other companies have already
been doing it for a while with their 'Search Inside the Book' program,
which is essentially almost the same idea as Google Print. Also, from
what I understand, Google can do this because they have agreements with
publishers, as stated on their website here
http://print.google.com/googleprint/help.html#8. I would imagine if you
didn't want your book online, it might be better to contact your
publisher first and not Google. However, I imagine legal repercussions
are already out of the question, or Amazon and Google would not both be
trying to do this; if they could be sued, then they already would have
been sued.

-Richard

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

>Does "fair use" describe the amount of text which Google allows each
>client to read (and/or print)? Or perhaps does "fair use" describe the
>amount of text which Google makes available to everyone to search (and
>subsequently to select a smaller portion thereof for reading and/or
>printing)?
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>That is, Google gave me the opportunity to access only six consecutive
>pages from Dan's book before it asked me to register; but Google allowed
>me to search several hundred pages of Dan's book before I chose _which_
>six pages.
>
>Six pages may fall within "fair use" for _me_, but do several hundred
>pages exceed "fair use" for _Google's_ enterprise?
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