I actually welcome the influx of thicker browsers, that have more content related features. The best one recently being Comic Junkie, which aggregates webcomics, giving new posting alerts, tracking which ones you've read, and displaying the webcomics in a rich web browser with thumbnails, ratings, comments and social bookmarking.
The parent post mocks exactly the subject at hand. Authors & Publishers can also opt out of the Google Print search engine. Yet they are suing Google anyways.
Here's a quote from macworld article:
"Google does allow copyright holders to exclude their books from the program. However, traditionally, content users must have affirmative authorization from a copyright owner to use the copyrighted material, said Terence Ross, a partner and copyright law specialist at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Washington, D.C., law office. "Merely saying that if we don't hear from you we assume it's okay has never been accepted by any court and I doubt it would ever be accepted," he said. "
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/21/googleprin t/index.php
I think Ross's point of view is rubbish.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking/Kelly_v_Arriba_Soft/ 20030707_9th_revised_ruling.pdf
I believe this court decision should establish a precedent that the judge will be more likely to adhere to than not. However, I really hope Google wins and the precedent is upholded. If not, the floodgates would be open to all sorts of lawsuits by content owners against search engines, and web applications.
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I actually welcome the influx of thicker browsers, that have more content related features. The best one recently being Comic Junkie, which aggregates webcomics, giving new posting alerts, tracking which ones you've read, and displaying the webcomics in a rich web browser with thumbnails, ratings, comments and social bookmarking.
Here's the link: http://www.comicjunkie.com
I hope these flock guys take a look and a richer browsing experience for these niche web markets.
The parent post mocks exactly the subject at hand. Authors & Publishers can also opt out of the Google Print search engine. Yet they are suing Google anyways. Here's a quote from macworld article: "Google does allow copyright holders to exclude their books from the program. However, traditionally, content users must have affirmative authorization from a copyright owner to use the copyrighted material, said Terence Ross, a partner and copyright law specialist at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a Washington, D.C., law office. "Merely saying that if we don't hear from you we assume it's okay has never been accepted by any court and I doubt it would ever be accepted," he said. " http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/21/googleprin t/index.php
I think Ross's point of view is rubbish.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Linking/Kelly_v_Arriba_Soft/ 20030707_9th_revised_ruling.pdf
I believe this court decision should establish a precedent that the judge will be more likely to adhere to than not. However, I really hope Google wins and the precedent is upholded. If not, the floodgates would be open to all sorts of lawsuits by content owners against search engines, and web applications.