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Google Responds to Authors Guild Lawsuit
Phoe6 writes "Google has responded to the Authors' Guild lawsuit of "massive copyright infringement". They point out that the Library Project is 'fully consistent with both the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law and the principles underlying copyright law itself, which allow everything from parodies to excerpts in book reviews.'"
Authors Guild sue google for showing their geo location on 'google maps' when u paste 31 E 28th St, 10th Floor New York, NY 10016-7923????? Isnt that privacy law infringement??? Isnt that showing a robber 'this is the address of Authors Guild...go rob 'em???'
All they have to do go to every lending library in the world and check out the books they wrote. Then simply not return them.
Do you use a public library in a modern city?
You cannot check out material without a library card.
To get a library card, you provide some contact info, and agree to some basic conditions.
If you don't return a book, the library fines you. Eventually, they charge you for the book. I would imagine that at some point, a library takes some kind of collections action to recover their costs.
If an author checks out a book and keeps renewing it, the library msy simply obtain another copy. Alternately, the library, or another patron who wants the book could put it on reserve so that when the author tries to renew it, the library can collect it for the patron who has the book on reserve.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
You're a cock smoker.
Copyright is evil and so are you.
How we know is more important than what we know.