Microsoft vs. Google: More at Stake Than Books
When Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin accused Google of taking a “cavalier approach to copyright” and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people’s copyrighted creations, he ignited a fiery debate over the ethics of information access, the meaning of copyright and the rules of free-market competition. Rubin’s comments were directed at the Association of American Publishers, and referred to Google’s ambitious Book Search project to digitize and make available electronically the contents of all the world’s books, whether still under copyright or not.
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Microsoft vs. Google: More at Stake Than Books
When Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin accused Google of taking a “cavalier approach to copyright” and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people’s copyrighted creations, he ignited a fiery debate over the ethics of information access, the meaning of copyright and the rules of free-market competition. Rubin’s comments were directed at the Association of American Publishers, and referred to Google’s ambitious Book Search project to digitize and make available electronically the contents of all the world’s books, whether still under copyright or not.