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May 27, 2005
Google Print Goes Live!
Posted by Ernest Miller
There has been all sorts of controversy about Google's decision to scan and digitize university libraries and make full-text search of the works available, see, Google's Library Digitization Plan Runs Into Opposition, but it is now live (though I am sure many more books are still to be added): Google Print: Beta.
Read About Google Print.
It is definitely beta, it is definitely rough, but the potential is obvious. One thing I would really like would be to search only through works that are out of copyright, such as those printed before 1923. Of course, this just goes to show what a transactional mess not having fixed-term copyright creates. How the heck is Google supposed to figure out which books published after 1923 are in copyright? Stupid copyright law.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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