The American Society of Media Photographers, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, and the Professional Photographers of America have all joined together to sue Google over copyright infringement, claiming that the search giant has scanned millions of books and magazines that include copyrighted images, then ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Welcome to the modern age were freedom and liberty are sold off to protect copy right, zeig heil!!zeig heil!!
Actually, das ist 'sieg heil,' nicht 'zeig heil.'
What's stupid here though, is that it's not like people at Google are in a back room scanning books into a computer. The books are crawled by Google's bots. Also, have you tried to read a full book on Google?! It's practically impossible. Sure you get bits and pieces, but you don't get the full book. It's usually at most a single chapter from the entire book. This just seems like another band of peasants jumping on the possibility of getting some wealth, deserved or not. I can understand if your photo showing up without getting to charge a ticket price, but Google isn't the one to be suing here. The sites that host it and publishers that allow pieces of books to be posted are the ones you guys are after... But they're not the ones with the money.
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: Welcome to the modern age were freedom and liberty are sold off to protect copy right, zeig heil!!zeig heil!!
Actually, das ist 'sieg heil,' nicht 'zeig heil.'
What's stupid here though, is that it's not like people at Google are in a back room scanning books into a computer. The books are crawled by Google's bots. Also, have you tried to read a full book on Google?! It's practically impossible. Sure you get bits and pieces, but you don't get the full book. It's usually at most a single chapter from the entire book. This just seems like another band of peasants jumping on the possibility of getting some wealth, deserved or not. I can understand if your photo showing up without getting to charge a ticket price, but Google isn't the one to be suing here. The sites that host it and publishers that allow pieces of books to be posted are the ones you guys are after... But they're not the ones with the money.
Well copy right owners want to protect every instance of every bit of every copy right they can, and in order to do that public rights and freedoms have to go.
