But it's also ridiculously impractical to negociate with hundred of thousands of copyright holders when you're going into mass digitalization of out-of-print books. The traditional way pointlessly restrains access to knowledge, and makes it more expensive.
The laws should be changed so that anyone is free to make works that have been unavailable for a certain amount of time (e.g out-of-print for 1 or 2 years) available again (ideally for free, but if we allow profit making taking the task would be more encouraged).
As most of the "if OpenGL is barely used in PC games that's sure because it's crap, what possibly else?" crowd, you're completely ignorant about OpenGL capabilities and issues and still come up with an opinion.
Was the Valley born out of greed.. or driven by the research and invention thrills, and eventual desires to make some lives better ?
And now that's it.. the heads of the most foremost tech corporations being taken over by greedy suits not feeling concerned at all by the public/planet good..
And laymen applauding at heroes finally taking action against those stupid nanny state measures stealing our so deserving wealthy.
Project Gutenberg out of business ? This deal doesn't prevent anyone to do something they could do before since noone had the right to do it.
So, you are with this Guild of bad faith, or you really want these orphaned works to be accessible ? In the latter case, isn't that an advancement that finally someone is able to hold on against the angry publishers whining and suing threats ?
Google is trying to be a monopoly, and not a single piece of their behaviour appears to be concerned with authors, libraries and archivists. It's a disgrace and I look forward to them explaining the land grab of European author's rights to the EU.
This license doesn't prevent competitors from getting into that job, "EXCLUSIVE deal" here means that Google is able to defend itself against the angry anti-progress publishers.
Besides most of these orphaned works would be public domain if lobbies hadn't extended copyright from 7 years to author death+70 years.
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Part of copyright, yes.
But it's also ridiculously impractical to negociate with hundred of thousands of copyright holders when you're going into mass digitalization of out-of-print books. The traditional way pointlessly restrains access to knowledge, and makes it more expensive.
The laws should be changed so that anyone is free to make works that have been unavailable for a certain amount of time (e.g out-of-print for 1 or 2 years) available again (ideally for free, but if we allow profit making taking the task would be more encouraged).
Creators and inventors see a hostile environment for profiting off their works, so they stop investing in creating and inventing. Film at 11.
"Investing in creating and inventing" ? I think you're confusing the creators and inventors with another category of profession.
Last time you checked, hah ?
As most of the "if OpenGL is barely used in PC games that's sure because it's crap, what possibly else?" crowd, you're completely ignorant about OpenGL capabilities and issues and still come up with an opinion.
Was the Valley born out of greed.. or driven by the research and invention thrills, and eventual desires to make some lives better ?
And now that's it.. the heads of the most foremost tech corporations being taken over by greedy suits not feeling concerned at all by the public/planet good..
And laymen applauding at heroes finally taking action against those stupid nanny state measures stealing our so deserving wealthy.
Project Gutenberg out of business ? This deal doesn't prevent anyone to do something they could do before since noone had the right to do it.
So, you are with this Guild of bad faith, or you really want these orphaned works to be accessible ? In the latter case, isn't that an advancement that finally someone is able to hold on against the angry publishers whining and suing threats ?
This license doesn't prevent competitors from getting into that job, "EXCLUSIVE deal" here means that Google is able to defend itself against the angry anti-progress publishers.
Besides most of these orphaned works would be public domain if lobbies hadn't extended copyright from 7 years to author death+70 years.
You haven't made too explicit queries on Google for that, do you ?