Google has the net’s hackles up and it’s unfortunate that this is starting to bleed over into places where the search giant is actually doing a good job.
Take the Google Print project, for example. The Authors Guild has misguidedly brought a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google.
This is so misguided as to be outright silly, and the Authors Guild and its complaining authors should know better. Not only is this a shot of adrenaline for the rickety book publishing industry, it clearly meets at least three of the four general tests for the applicability of a fair-use defense, as EFF lawyer Fred von Lohmann clearly articulates.
Google has responded on the company’s official weblog.
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