[Web4lib] More on Google's digitization efforts

[Lars Aronsson]

Bernie Sloan quoted a Chicago Tribune article:

> "To many copyright holders, though, the Google gambit feels a little
> like a burglar announcing to homeowners that he is going to go ahead and
> pillage their houses unless they specifically ask him not to."

If this analogy would be valid, where would that put libraries? 
One lawyer says in the article that you need copyright permission 
to offer searches.  Perhaps then you also need copyright 
permission to offer loans, catalog records, and what not?

As far as I know, I can compile an alphabetic index to someone 
else's book and publish it without asking permission from the 
copyright holders.  In fact, I already did that, 
http://aronsson.se/funkybusiness.html

How is my finding tool any different from Google Print?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se