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Pat Schroeder and Bob Barr Team Up
Pat Schroeder 2 and Bob Barr 2, two political opposites, have teamed up in an editorial today in the Washington Times, lambasting Google’s planned Print Library Project.
You’re probably reading the byline above and wondering, “What could these two, from opposite sides of the aisle in Congress, possibly have in common with each other?”
The answer is when it comes to Google’s Print Library Project we have much in common: We’re both authors and both believe Intellectual property should actually mean something.
And so we find ourselves joining together to fight a $90 billion company bent on unilaterally changing copyright law to their benefit and in turn denying publishers and authors the rights granted to them by the U.S. Constitution.
nternet behemoth Google, plans to launch their Library project in November. It plans to scan the entire contents of the Stanford, Harvard and University of Michigan libraries and make what it calls “snippets” of the works available online, for free.
The creators and owners of these copyrighted works will not be compensated, nor has Google defined what a “snippet” is: a paragraph? A page? A chapter? A whole book? Meanwhile Google will gain a huge new revenue stream by selling ad space on library search results. Selling ads on its search engine is how Google makes 99 percent of its billions.
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