Comments on: Sergey Brin on Google Books http://themoderatevoice.com/49168/sergey-brin-on-google-books/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Thu, 31 May 2012 01:03:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: JWindish http://themoderatevoice.com/49168/sergey-brin-on-google-books/comment-page-1/#comment-221616 JWindish Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:39:31 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49168#comment-221616 Early on I was vocally in favor of the Google Books project and how Google went about doing it. On the agreement with publishers, the two people who i look to for guidance on such things, <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/10/on_the_google_book_search_agre.html" rel="nofollow">Larry Lessig</a> and <a href="http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2008/10/my_initial_take_on_the_googlep.php" rel="nofollow">Siva Vaidhyanathan</a>, diverge. For now I'm more in line with Lessig, who sees the book agreement as the basis for something very good. Early on I was vocally in favor of the Google Books project and how Google went about doing it. On the agreement with publishers, the two people who i look to for guidance on such things, Larry Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, diverge. For now I'm more in line with Lessig, who sees the book agreement as the basis for something very good.

]]> By: kathykattenburg http://themoderatevoice.com/49168/sergey-brin-on-google-books/comment-page-1/#comment-221550 kathykattenburg Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:59:09 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=49168#comment-221550 I'm not terribly up on this issue, but I read both Brin's op-ed and Thompson's response to it, and to be honest I don't really find the latter's arguments terribly impressive. He seems to sneer at the notion that having ten million out-of-print books online instead of having to search libraries all over the world for them is anything more than just a trivial convenience. I certainly don't agree with that. Whatever the merit of the argument about the copyright issue, Brin does make some excellent points on the access-to-information side.<br><br>What do you think, Joe? I'm not terribly up on this issue, but I read both Brin's op-ed and Thompson's response to it, and to be honest I don't really find the latter's arguments terribly impressive. He seems to sneer at the notion that having ten million out-of-print books online instead of having to search libraries all over the world for them is anything more than just a trivial convenience. I certainly don't agree with that. Whatever the merit of the argument about the copyright issue, Brin does make some excellent points on the access-to-information side.

What do you think, Joe?

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