The digitized text might make something available to someone for free, whereas they may have otherwise purchased that book. So, if what Google plans to do ruins ONE sale for an author, then it’s one sale too many.
J.D. Petruzzi
]]>Thanks very much for passing that along.
It does not change my mind or my opinion in any fashion.
An old cliche goes, “why should I buy the cow if I can get its milk for free?” In my mind, making my material available on line for free, without my permission, in any fashion whatsoever, violates my copyright.
Nothing will change my mind about this.
Eric
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ll do, whatâ€s the harm? Sure, we may object to the high-handed way theyâ€re going about it (requiring copyright holders to opt-out), but they say that theyâ€ll be digitising this stuff to make a huge index, thatâ€s all. And is that so bad?
But if they succumb to the temptation to offer this digitised text as a service (and perhaps give some return to the authors) thatâ€s another thing.
And of course it's not as simple as that.]]>But if they succumb to the temptation to offer this digitised text as a service (and perhaps give some return to the authors) that’s another thing.
And of course it’s not as simple as that.
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