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| Lolette Kuby |
11/3/05
I do object to having my published/copyrighted works made available to the public via the Google Print Library Project.
Aren't there copyright laws that prohibit the duplication of an entire copyrighted book? Why should Google be exempted from this?
Should entire libraries, financed by public funds and philanthropies, accumulated with laborious discretion over hundred of years, simply be transferred to a corporation?
No doubt Google will benefit by increased advertising revenues and stock market prices, but how will the libraries benefit?
Google would jeopardize the library system itself—the beginning of the end of the public library as we know it?
Google says it will display only a few sentences surrounding the highlighted term. What happens if the highlighted term appears many times in a given work? Will there be no limit on the total number of words displayed?
The only advantage to the author I can see would be stimulating interest in a given book, but even that advantage would apply only to the small number of books that are still in copyright and also still in print.
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