Internet Archive Seeks Same Online Book Rights As Google

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 18, 2009 @05:26PM from the from-a-to-z-and-back-again dept.

Miracle Jones writes "Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive has jumped on Google's 'Authors Guild' settlement and asked to be included as a party defendant, claiming that they ought to get the same rights and protections from liability that Google will receive when the settlement is approved by federal court. From the Internet Archive's letter to Judge Denny Chin: 'The Archive's text archive would greatly benefit from the same limitation of potential copyright liability that the proposed settlement provides Google. Without such a limitation, the Archive would be unable to provide some of these same services due to the uncertain legal issues surrounding orphan books.'"

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Re:At a minimum, this should be open to all comers by dissy · 2009-04-19 02:16 · Score: 0, Troll

How on earth does this limit "free speach" or "free expression"? In no way does it stop anyone going out and saying what they want.
I dunno, go ask the pirate bay owners.
They said what they wanted, which is even legal on the books (both before and after the trial, no laws got changed here) and they were still sentenced 1 year in jail and fines.
I'd say copyright totally stops you from saying what you want, when you can get a year in jail for saying "i know someone who knows someone who [...,n] who has the work i'm talking about, and my only data i have stored outside of by brain about this work is a little hash number only 64 digits ling, so you can know the work you are referencing is the same one I am referencing"