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Sounds like a new business opportunity for the Origami Boulder guy:

http://www.origamiboulder.com/

check out this site...

http://www.origamiboulder.com/

As the saying goes, "there's a sucker born every minute"...and the web gives you access to just about all of them at once.

feh! origami boulder MUCH cooler!

http://www.origamiboulder.com/

I'd rather buy one of these...

I highly recommend... at least you know what your really getting!

Origami, is Japanese art of folding paper. Boulder is round rock. Origami Boulder is wadded up paper! You understand now, dumbo? Then hurry up and buy wadded paper!

> does that entitle me to the right to take any copyrighted text and digitize it into my library without permission?

It's called "fair use".
With most legislation out there, if you have access to books either by buying them in a book store (in witch case you have paid the copyright holder), or by checking them out of a library (in which case the library pays a licensing compagny to make their books available to its users) then you can do whatever you want for your own usage :
- you can read it.
- you can store it digitaly for your own usage.
- you can tear pages and make Origamis Boulders with it.

Of course, if want to publish these contents, then we're beyond "private and personnal use" and you need to pay some license before doing it (like the library does).

BUT there's another thing called the right to cite.
You have the right to use small reasonnable portions of copyrighted material where you want, as long as you cite the source. (You can quote some other in an essay about this author's works. Or show a table in a presentation...)

And I think google did nothing wrong :
- They scanned books, but as long as the content is not online there's nothing wrong with that : the libraries where they borrowed the books DO pay license to make books available.
- They only show a few words of context for the matching keywords, bibliographical data, and the first or the two first pages of the book. That clearly can be considered as a "reasonable portion".

Of course, I'm european and don't have knowledge of amercan laws. Maybe the laws in the US are different than the rest of the world.

Also note that google provides an additionnal service to the copyrights owner, without being asked for and without receiving anything in return from the copyright owners : they provide links to on-line bookstore, and probably help the copyright holder to sell more.

The only that could truly be afraid are the small specialist bookshops, that usually know and sell less known book that you won't find in huge stores.

Why make an Origami Boulder, when you can buy one from a famous artiste?
When it comes to polygons/square inch, his foldings outdo traditional Origami by orders of magnitude. The result is decidedly organic looking.

Maxim article is just rip-off of artist's real work, dum-dums. You go buy origami boulder now!

None of them can compete with the origami boulder!
:)

--krahd

Anybody want to buy an origami boulder?

The article makes an origami boulder of a statement -- everything is jumbled together, poor explanations, incomplete statements, real problems, unrelated facts... only to come to conclusion that is nothing but a wild guess.

eLink has an office in the Tokyo, Japan area.
And this ePaper is the thirth product of the company.

Its first attempt to produce a cool paper product wasn't a hit.

The second set of cool paper products is more interesting.

Japanese Paper owns.

Whats dumb? Instructions on toilet paper.
Whats dumber than that? reading them.
Whats even dumber? Reading them and learning something.
Dumbest of all? Reading them and having to correct something you've been doing wrong.

"I think this guyhas the right idea"

From his site... Dear Origami Boulder, This is to notify you that the allowed MB of Data Transfer per month for www.origamiboulder.com has been exceeded. You must take action now to prevent your site from being redirected. Please purchase additional data transfer

So you link him on Slashdot?!!
The pain, when will it stop

I like Origami. Cranes are cool, but what I really like are boulders and rocks.

I've always found that my stress level is directly proportional to the number of times I've tried to fold a goddam pterodactyl or swan or whatever the hell it's supposed to be. I think this guy has the right idea. =)

Folding..

Cursing..

Exporting..

Sounds like the business plan of the Origami Boulder guy!

The mastery of Origami Boulder humbles all.

>I'm one of those guys who gave up on origami until I found an excellent HOWTO. Does it make newsworthy for Slashdot?

I don't know. Did making the origami involve a robot and/or 3D modelling software? If so, yes.

Otherwise it's just another origami boulder. Sorry.

like an origami boulder

And it might be good for picking up on the hot chic with the Stephen Hawking fetish in Japanese class...