Reining in Google

CDPatten writes "The Washington Times has an op-ed piece by two writers typically on opposing sides of the isle, Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr. The article is brief, but overwhelmingly opposes the Google Print service. From the article 'Not only is Google trying to rewrite copyright law, it is also crushing creativity ...Google envisions a world in which all content is free; and of course, it controls the portal through which Internet user's access that content. It would completely devalue everyone else's property and massively increase the value of its own.'. It sounds to me like they might be slightly peeved that Google is resuming the scanning.

Comments

To the rag that is the Wash. Times: Let them scan!

[MarkEst1973]

1. The Washington Times != The Washington Post. One is a bastion of DC journalism. The other is only slightly better than a tabloid.

2. Let Google scan. Let me search. Only by having Google's (or someone's) index available will I be able to easily find a book I never knew existed. The Dewey Decimal System's got nothing on full text indexing.

Gentlemen, Start Your Hypocrisy Detectors....

[Steve B]

And so we find ourselves joining together to fight a $90 billion company bent on unilaterally changing copyright law to their benefit

Who wants to start posting Barr and Schroeder's voting records?

Or does their objection to doing it "unilaterally" merely mean "our old colleages aren't getting their cut"?