Terry,
It looks as if Google intends to make public domain material available
in full and make copyrighted material available as a few snippets that
would allow someone to determine relevance to a search.
Gunnar
On Dec 17, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Terence Love wrote:
> On the Google/library issue, I'll be interested in seeing how that
> goes. There are many publishers who have supplied books to
> libraries with explicit conditions that they may not be 'copied by any
> mechanical or other means' or something similar. I'm not sure from the
> information so far whether Google is proposing to index or fully copy
> texts. Seems an implication is that Google's proposal if implemented
> will reduce the commercial value and meaning of copyright.
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