[Web4lib] Interesting Google Print article in Slate

[Peter Morville]

Interesting article! Tim O'Reilly, the publisher, recently wrote a NY Times
Op Ed piece on this subject...

	
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/09/ny_times_op_ed_on_authors_guil.htm
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...that begins with the following:

"AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity. According
to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks sales from major booksellers, only 2
percent of the 1.2 million unique titles sold in 2004 had sales of more than
5,000 copies. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against
the Google Library Project is poignantly wrongheaded."

I agree with Tim. I also think Larry Lessig's perspective is worth
reviewing:

	http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003140.shtml


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
http://semanticstudios.com
http://findability.org



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By Tim Wu, an associate professor at the University of Virginia Law
School who teaches intellectual property:

Leggo my ego: GooglePrint and the other culture war. Slate magazine,
October 17, 2005. http://slate.msn.com/id/2128094/ 

"At stake are two different visions of what might best promote
authorship in this country. One side trumpets the culture of authorial
exposure, the other urges the culture of authorial control. The relevant
questions, respectively, are: Do we think the law should help authors
maximize their control over their work? Or are authors best served by
exposure-making it easier to find their work?"

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
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E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu

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