Google Library, The Lawsuits, and Is Charkin Barking Up the Right Tree?
Google interpreted copyright law in a search engine friendly manner and decided that the act of digitizing books found in libraries, indexing that content, and then displaying only the smallest "snippet" of that content (250 characters), was no different than what they do spidering the internet and displaying snippet results. This is where the world of the internet and book publishing collide culturally - Charkin sees this as theft, Google sees it as how ... Full Story »
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