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June 23, 2007
Chronicle, Academic Blogging re: Google Library Search
June 22, 2007
What Does Stealing Laptops Have to Do With Google Library Search?
When a British publishing executive swiped two laptops from Google’s booth at Book Expo America this month, he said he wanted to make a point about Google’s Library Search. Noting that Google did not specifically prohibit people from walking away with the computers, Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillan, waited near the booth to see what would happen. When Google finally discovered his prank, he said he was doing exactly what Google was doing to publishers with respect to intellectual property.
On the Oxford University Press blog, Evan Schnittman says he was greatly amused by the prank but thinks Charkin’s effort ultimately failed. “Had Charkin taken the laptop and given it to a third party – he would have been closer to what is going on with GL.”
Posted by schnitzr at June 23, 2007 04:54 PM
Comments
Lawrence Lessig commented on this incident in his blog a few weeks ago, calling it "an astonishing breach of ignorance, even for a 'head honcho'".
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003791.shtml
Cheers,
Marisa
Posted by: meese at June 23, 2007 09:55 PM
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