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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Those from members of the authors guild. I believe that was their main argument for continuing to post snippets from the vast number of books that were being protested. It would cost too much to address each issue individually as there were so many. I did read this as a statement from a Google spokesman IIRC and will try to remember exactly where. If I can't find it I will humbly beg your pardon.
And possibly the financial motivation factor is not that strong. After all what is a few hundred million to a company who paid out 125 million in 2008 on a very similar issue in 2008 and another 30 million to their lawyers and continued blithely on their way despite being aware that according to the court decision at that time it was not quite the right thing to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors...ct_with_Google
Perhaps those that say all information should be free for the benefit of humanity are right, and in a perfect world it would be. But in this world all information being free could lead to most information being worth exactly what is paid for it. In other words nothing. I sometimes find that to be the case already 
Helen |
Why would Google bother complying with takedown notices where there is no violation of copyright?
Also...I believe that $125 million was a settlement agreement that Guild and Google arrived at to make the litigation go away, not a court decision. Also, that settlement agreement was ultimately rejected by the court, and that's why the litigation between Google and the Guild continued and why Google now has this latest court victory under their belt.
I don't know if all information should be free, but I have no problem with Google providing information which they are (according to this latest court decision) legally able to provide, temper tantrums by the Guild notwithstanding.