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Perhaps you Google follk should...
" The Authors Guild represents more than 8,000 authors and is the largest society of published writers in the United States."

Put those 8000 authors on the 'do not scan' list and continue regardless, start with Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman and anyone on the witness list.

By refusing to identify what 'their' work is, they don't gain rights over 'ever' work and its not unreasonable to make books searchable, its a good thing! You remove their standing in the case.

Google should also make the 'do not scan' ISBN list available to anyone else that wants it, so author only have to say once that they don't want their book searchable.

And update the EULAs so you stop claiming 'unregisterable intellectual property rights' or 'pre permission of copyright', you simply undermine yourself by not standing behind your principles. Say for example if your CEO never stood up when people lobbied for privacy, yet gets annoyed when his own privacy is undermined.

My 2 cents worth, which is current Adsense earnings per click I believe.
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 09/21/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Since when is wanting to make a living  Real World | 09/20/05
Nobody's calling it sinister, but...  LateBlt | 09/20/05
You assume publishing a book is free.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/20/05
Putting out books is cheaper than music  LateBlt | 09/20/05
Sorry, I still disagree  Real World | 09/21/05
Have you ever written anything?  voska | 09/21/05
Libraries  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
CDS in Libraries  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
try reading the law  voska | 09/21/05
Putting out books is NOT cheaper than music  vulpine@... | 09/21/05
Art is a product  RobertoSalazar | 09/21/05
This has nothing to do with Napster  specialk_z | 09/21/05
Benefit to Authors  Erik1234 | 09/21/05
Back to Napster again we are  specialk_z | 09/21/05
Not quite  ebphoto | 09/22/05
If the book sells the author profits  voska | 09/21/05
Libraries  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
That's your opinion  voska | 09/21/05
Ziiing...  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
Wonderful wink  petit@... | 09/21/05
LOL  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
You said it yourself  specialk_z | 09/21/05
I predict..  jgearhart@... | 09/21/05
Google does not provide a FAIR SEARCH  RobertoSalazar | 09/21/05
Granted, but..  jgearhart@... | 09/21/05
Oops!  John L. Ries | 09/20/05
On second thought...  John L. Ries | 09/20/05
Profiting is not considered fair use.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/20/05
Google Profits  Erik1234 | 09/21/05
Very fine hair  Patrick Jones | 09/21/05
Copyright does not give total control to author/copyright holder.  Root User | 09/20/05
Libraries  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
RE:Copyright does not give total control to author/copyright holder  ebphoto | 09/22/05
Perhaps you Google follk should...  Nigel Johnstone | 09/21/05
That's wrong  rapson | 09/21/05
Should be but it's not  voska | 09/21/05
Wrong, not illegal  rapson | 09/21/05
wrong is open to interpretation  voska | 09/21/05
Spot on!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/21/05
Nope, your wrong. The people the authors guild should be sueing is  Been_Done_Before | 09/21/05
libraries can do this  voska | 09/21/05
You missed the point  rapson | 10/03/05
Just a matter of convenience  jgearhart@... | 09/21/05
Bingo  Henrick Ericcson | 09/21/05
Right  jgearhart@... | 09/21/05
Hmmmm..  jgearhart@... | 09/21/05
Google Is Not The Good Guy  RobertoSalazar | 09/21/05
Google's right  Dr_Zinj | 09/21/05
Is somebody missing the point ?  carel@... | 09/21/05
Dogs in the Manger  thall@... | 09/23/05
Let's stay in the Stone Age, shall we?  pmyhre | 09/23/05

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