[VBbuilders] Google Voice discovered allowing pure VoIP calls???

[Michel Bauwens]

fair point and why we should support public (or common?) digitizing
projects, not private ones that in some way or other attempt to enclose  ..

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > hi robert,
> >
> > google regulates access to its digitized collection, but the book remain
> in
> > the public domain, and can be digitized by others
>
> Google owns the copyright to the specific instances they have scanned
> into their databases.
>
> That increases the number of copies on earth, and does not diminished
> the public domain (though, if we want to be picky, it could be argued
> that the act of handling the original manuscripts really *does* cause
> damage, and if thousands of corporations were doing the same as
> Google, the cumulative effects could be problematic...).
>
> The concern I have is that society will come to rely upon those
> corporate copies, even just as thinking "We don't need to make another
> copy for 'backup', since we know somebody else is already storing this
> data.", and then, when the library burns to the ground, that
> information will be inaccessible unless we pay price above cost.
>



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