Good and Evil in the Garden of Digitization: Google and Fair Use

摘要

In a January 2008 Searcher article, Beth Ashmore and Jill Grogg discuss the Open Content Alliance (OCA) and Amazon.com's book digitization projects. They point out that Amazon and OCA did not invent book digitization and acknowledge the dragon in the corner - Google Book Search. As important and interesting as all projects by Google are, Google, by virtue of its size and leverage and because of its digitization model, has assumed dinosaur proportions with Google Book Search. An interesting history of its activities and reactions to them appears in an article by Ken Auletta for a January 2008 issue of the New Yorker. Auletta's interview with Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, is intriguing.