In Trouble With the Congress? Bad Google
So Google may be in trouble again over this Google Print thing. It used to be angry publishers that would try to take Google to court, this time it may be the congress…
SEW reports today of a letter from the National Consumer League (NCL) which calls for a congessional hearing in this matter.
In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues, the nation’s oldest consumer advocacy group raised concerns about a forthcoming ambitious effort to catalogue the entire collections of four major American libraries. The letter, signed by National Consumers League President Linda Golodner, acknowledges the tremendous potential value in Google Inc.’s bold vision for the new initiative, in which the complete collection of works at the university libraries of Stanford, Michigan, and Harvard, and of the New York Public Library, would be scanned and made available electronically to the public. The Washington-based advocacy group warned, however, that the project, which will resume scanning on November 1, 2005 poses dramatic threats to the principle of copyrights; fairness to authors; and cultural selectivity, exclusion, and censorship…We do not doubt Google’s good intentions,” wrote Golodner. “But any database which represents itself as being a ‘full’ or ‘complete’ record of American culture as reflected in the collections of four major research libraries must, in fact, be complete.
Hmm… Bad Google…
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