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I was impressed with Google's response. Instead of ripping on Yahoo, they simply said that they support anyone making content available. Good for them! I also like to see more and more doing this. Gutenberg has a place in history, and I hope they always remain a significant player, and are honored for all their groundbreaking efforts. But I also hope to see a lot of others doing the same kind of work.
Now if we could only bring the length of copyrights down to a decade or two instead of nearly forever. Or at least have some sort of tiered release schedule so that maybe content is available for educational use after 5 years, for personal use after 10yrs and freely in the public domain after 10yrs. Personally, if we are looking at the overall well-being of society, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially with the face pace of content creation. But I realize that's just wishful thinking.
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