An organisation representing French and German speaking newspapers in Belgium has won a court order forcing Google to stop indexing these journals. They also forced Google to post the order on its homepage in belgium: http://www.google.be/
Here the address of these enlightened people: http://www.presscopyrights.be/
Lucky I speak Flemish and NEVER read these newspapers anyway. Nothing is lost, I assure you. Only a bunch of isolated people will get even more isolated since any news of them will totally fall into oblivion.
It is even worse: the so-called "information industry", the large publishing houses and the "content mediators" are not at all large employers. Instead, they prefer to hire a few highly payed lawyers to lobby for their "interests", and live for the rest from the contributions of government and community payed researchers.
Universities must act on this. It is no less than wrongfull appropriation of mankinds' public heritage.
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An organisation representing French and German speaking newspapers in Belgium has won a court order forcing Google to stop indexing these journals. They also forced Google to post the order on its homepage in belgium: http://www.google.be/ Here the address of these enlightened people: http://www.presscopyrights.be/ Lucky I speak Flemish and NEVER read these newspapers anyway. Nothing is lost, I assure you. Only a bunch of isolated people will get even more isolated since any news of them will totally fall into oblivion.
It is even worse: the so-called "information industry", the large publishing houses and the "content mediators" are not at all large employers. Instead, they prefer to hire a few highly payed lawyers to lobby for their "interests", and live for the rest from the contributions of government and community payed researchers. Universities must act on this. It is no less than wrongfull appropriation of mankinds' public heritage.
There is an article about this on the New Scientists's website: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 92760