Comments on: Will reprint sites have to drop Google Books? http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/31/will-reprint-sites-have-to-drop-google-books/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:46:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul Durrant http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/31/will-reprint-sites-have-to-drop-google-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1008999 Paul Durrant Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:33:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=16108#comment-1008999 In the US, at least, you can't claim copyright on an out-of-copyright work just through simple mechanical reproduction of the work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp. So I suspect that Google are trying to suggest that they have authority over reproductions of their scans of out-of-copyright works when in fact they do not. In the US, at least, you can’t claim copyright on an out-of-copyright work just through simple mechanical reproduction of the work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp.

So I suspect that Google are trying to suggest that they have authority over reproductions of their scans of out-of-copyright works when in fact they do not.

]]> By: Bob Gillham http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/31/will-reprint-sites-have-to-drop-google-books/comment-page-1/#comment-1008718 Bob Gillham Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:28:14 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=16108#comment-1008718 As I see it Google steal books from dead people, who certainly NEVER envisaged anything like the internet. They do NO creative or editorial work at all (unlike Gutenberg) and then they imply dictated terms to people WITHOUT specifying what terms and by what right they presume to dictate them... could we refer them to the famous retort so often cited in "Private Eye" in the case of Arkell ltd vs Pressdram...ie "Go Away" in coarse language. As I see it Google steal books from dead people, who certainly NEVER envisaged anything like the internet. They do NO creative or editorial work at all (unlike Gutenberg) and then they imply dictated terms to people WITHOUT specifying what terms and by what right they presume to dictate them… could we refer them to the famous retort so often cited in “Private Eye” in the case of Arkell ltd vs Pressdram…ie “Go Away” in coarse language.

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