Thursday, November 30, 2006
Google Takes On Copyright Laws
Associated Press
09:46 AM Sep. 18, 2005 PT
"With Google's book-scanning program set to resume in earnest this fall, copyright laws that long preceded the internet look to be headed for a digital-age test. The outcome could determine how easy it will be for people with internet access to benefit from knowledge that's now mostly locked up -- in books sitting on dusty library shelves, many of them out of print."
In the end, Google will control everything. If you lose your car keys: just Google it. If you put your socks in the dryer and a few were missing when it was done: they're probably on Google somewhere. It seems impossible that anyone can stop such a profittable company from progressing toward better search results with such high demand from the public. People want easy access with minimal effort. If you think anyone in my generation is going to spend countless hours searching multiple library card catalogs, you are damn wrong. We are e-generation. And soon, Google will be a part of us--like the cell phone--one day implanted into our brains so that we can finally complete the symbiotic connection that we have so long desired. The card catologue is dead along with searching for your wallet. Why try? Just Google it.
"Jonathan Zittrain, an internet legal scholar affiliated with Oxford and Harvard universities, says the book-scanning dispute comes down balancing commercial and social benefits.
'From the point of view of the publishers, you can't blame them for playing their role, which is to maximize sales," he said. "But if fair use wasn't found, (Google) would never be able to do the mass importation of books required to make a database that is socially useful.'"
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68901,00.html
09:46 AM Sep. 18, 2005 PT
"With Google's book-scanning program set to resume in earnest this fall, copyright laws that long preceded the internet look to be headed for a digital-age test. The outcome could determine how easy it will be for people with internet access to benefit from knowledge that's now mostly locked up -- in books sitting on dusty library shelves, many of them out of print."
In the end, Google will control everything. If you lose your car keys: just Google it. If you put your socks in the dryer and a few were missing when it was done: they're probably on Google somewhere. It seems impossible that anyone can stop such a profittable company from progressing toward better search results with such high demand from the public. People want easy access with minimal effort. If you think anyone in my generation is going to spend countless hours searching multiple library card catalogs, you are damn wrong. We are e-generation. And soon, Google will be a part of us--like the cell phone--one day implanted into our brains so that we can finally complete the symbiotic connection that we have so long desired. The card catologue is dead along with searching for your wallet. Why try? Just Google it.
"Jonathan Zittrain, an internet legal scholar affiliated with Oxford and Harvard universities, says the book-scanning dispute comes down balancing commercial and social benefits.
'From the point of view of the publishers, you can't blame them for playing their role, which is to maximize sales," he said. "But if fair use wasn't found, (Google) would never be able to do the mass importation of books required to make a database that is socially useful.'"
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68901,00.html
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It is hard to imagine how far search technology will go. If search gets sophisticated enough will we need to learn anything at all? Or will we just need to learn how to ask the right questions, how to select the right keywords to input?
As our reliance on search increases how will that change our relationship to knowledge, work and creativity? Will writing be little more than search and paste?
Will Google's algorithmic search logic shape the way we perceive the world?
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As our reliance on search increases how will that change our relationship to knowledge, work and creativity? Will writing be little more than search and paste?
Will Google's algorithmic search logic shape the way we perceive the world?
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