Posted by shaun
on 9/16/2009, 10:35 am, in reply to "google books"
Message modified by user shaun 9/16/2009, 10:36 am
...Google Books is merely a cataloguing of old books, i.e, scanning them in from cover to last page-? This seems like a good thing, or should I say, I can't conceive of how this would be controversial, in the least, insofar as books in the public domain go--which, from the link, it seems that a goodly portion are in the public domain. I'd expect them ALL to be: No controversy there.
So, I must assume that Google Books is going ahead and scanning/cataloguing Books that still have copyrights? That doesn't seem "controversial" to me, but rather, simply illegal. Is that the core issue, here?
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