[Web4lib] Microsoft attacks Google on copyright

[Rick Mason]

The full text of the speech can be found on Microsoft's site:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/trubin/03-05-07AmericanPublishers.mspx

I encountered the link on the Search Engine Land blog:

http://searchengineland.com/070306-101103.php

Rick

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Lakos, Amos <aalakos at library.ucla.edu>
>  Subject: [Web4lib] Microsoft attacks Google on copyright
>  Sent: 06 Mar '07 13:08
>  
>  Today's Financial Times reports on Microsoft's attck on Google on
>  copyright.
>  
>  May be a sign that Microsoft is worried...
>  
>  See article -
>  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3109938c-cb61-11db-b436-000b5df10621.html
>  
>  Tom Rubin's (associate general counsel for intellectual property at
>  Microsoft) article -
>  
>  Page 13 in today's Financial Times - the article itself is not free -
>  have to subscribe to it.
>  
>  Essentially Rubin contends that Google are arrogant and do not comply
>  with copyright -
>  
>  something Microsoft always does....This may have to do with more than
>  the library project -
>  
>  the YouTube issue is one of the main points he raises.
>  
>  Amos
>  
>  Amos A Lakos
>  Librarian
>  Rosenfeld Management Library, UCLA Anderson
>  Phone - 310-794-4381
>  Homepage - http://personal.anderson.ucla.edu/amos.lakos/