Google CEO Discusses Print in Journal
“Imagine sitting at your computer and, in less than a second, searching the full text of every book ever written. Imagine an historian being able to instantly find every book that mentions the Battle of Algiers. Imagine one giant electronic card catalog that makes all the world’s books discoverable with just a few keystrokes by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
“That’s the vision behind Google Print. Recently, some members of the publishing industry who believe this program violates copyright law have been fighting to stop it. We respectfully disagree with their conclusions, on both the meaning of the law and the spirit of a program which, in fact, will enhance the value of each copyright. Here’s why.
Google Blog The Point of Google Print. Oct. 19, 2005. (Editor’s Note: The above article is a full reprint of an editorial written by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, October 18.)
See also:
Google Blog. Why We Believe in Google Print. Oct. 19, 2005.
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Barney Goes Ballistic Over Parody
“For a plush purple dinosaur who extols the virtues of affection and amity, Barney can be surprisingly aggressive in his legal demands.
“Barney’s lawyers at the New York firm of Gibney, Anthony and Flaherty sent stiff warning letters last week to Web sites displaying less-than-flattering images of the plump saurian.”
Declan McCullagh. Barney: I Sue You, You Sue Me. News.com. Oct. 17, 2005.
See also:
United States District Court, Northern District of Calif. Online Policy Group, Inc. v. Diebold, Inc. (.pdf, 115 KB) Sept. 30, 2004.
Kim Zetter. Diebold Loses Key Copyright Case. Wired News. Sept. 30, 2004.
EFF Deep Links. Judge Posner: Misuse Remedies for Copyright’s Chill. Aug. 24, 2004.
Lessig Blog. Fair Use and Misuse. Aug. 24, 2004.
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Lyons Partnership vs. Ted Giannoulas. July 7, 1999.
What Is a Copy?
“When speaking of ‘copyright,’ one might think that ‘copy’ would be a clear concept. In the past, the word was hypenated, ‘copy-right,’ but even this was ambiguous: did it refer to ‘copy’ as a noun or as a verb? Were we to be concerned with a right in a ‘copy’ or a right to copy?”
The Patry Copyright Blog. The Unsettled, Unsettling Concept of “Copy” Oct. 17, 2005.
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Clash of the (New) Titans: Exposure vs. Control
“Did you know you can search television? That you can type in ‘yada yada yada,’ and find the exact frames where George Costanza’s girlfriend Marcy said it first? Weird as it may seem, you can do it with one of Google’s little-known products, Google Video. It’s part of Google’s not-quite-secret master plan—to make as much of the ‘offline world’ searchable online as humanly possible.
“Google is the company that wants to be loved, and it is invariably shocked when people object to what they are doing. That, recently, has amounted to a lot of shock.”
Tim Wu. Leggo My Ego. Slate. Oct. 17, 2005.
See also:
On the Media. Steal This Book. Sept. 30, 2005. (Transcript of Bob Garfield interview of Siva Vaidhyanathan.)
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Photo Shops Seek Image Theft
“Bloggers, beware: That photo of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on your Web site could be fodder for a lawsuit. Stock photography companies like Getty Images Inc. and Corbis Corp. are using high-tech tools to crack down on Web site owners who try to use their photographs without paying for them.
“At sites like GettyImages.com and Corbis.com, advertisers, publishers and others looking to license professional photographs can browse and purchase millions of high-quality images. In making it easy for customers to find pictures, though, the sites have also made it easier to swipe a copy of an image and post it on the Web.”
Vauhini Vara. Photo Agencies Scour the Web for Copyright Violations. The Wall Street Journal Online. Oct. 14, 2005.
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Battle Royale in Tunisia
“Next month, world diplomats will travel to Tunisia to tackle a topic so dense that it normally clears a room in seconds: how the Internet is governed.
“But the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society could be the scene of an international brawl, with some claiming that the core freedoms and integrity of the global network are at risk.
“The battle centers on how much control the United States will continue to have in overseeing the Internet’s plumbing.”
Jonathan Krim. U.S. May Face World at Internet Governance Summit. WashingtonPost.com. Oct. 13, 2005.
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Apple Unveils Video iPod & New iMac
Commentary by K. Matthew Dames, executive editor.
There was once this guy called Michael Jordan. He used to play basketball. He was pretty good.
A few years ago — April 20, 1986, specifically — this Jordan guy was in Boston, Mass. to play a basketball game. Jordan had missed most of that season (his second as a professional) with a foot injury, and rushed himself back so that he could play in that game. On that day, in that game, this Jordan kid proceeded to pummel the legendary Boston Celtics with an array of spins, pirouettes, fades, crossovers, and vacuum-inducing dunks that left the best team in basketball dazed and confused with admiration and respect.
Larry Bird, who at that time was probably the best player in the same league as Jordan said after the game, “I didn’t think anyone was capable of doing what Michael has done to us. He is the most exciting, awesome player in the game today. I think it’s just God disguised as Michael Jordan.”
Steve Jobs is on that kind of roll. “Unconscious,” is the term sportscasters would use.
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