10/26/05

I do object to having my published/copyrighted works made available to the public via the Google Print Library Project.

Free information comes at a cost to its creators, and no one else. Google's opt-out plan requires me, as a content creator, to beg to have my work excluded from scanning, which is much the same as saying that my home is free to be burglarized (by Google subcontractors, no less) if I do not take time to surround it with a moat and cheval-de-frise. Any similar technology that is not opt-in is a form of thievery, and I encourage PEN to join the suit against this supposed pioneer—which would not be pioneering at all were there not money to be made from the work of others.

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