fair point and why we should support public (or common?) digitizing projects, not private ones that in some way or other attempt to enclose ..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Patrick Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agnucius@gmail.com">agnucius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> hi robert,<br>
><br>
> google regulates access to its digitized collection, but the book remain in<br>
> the public domain, and can be digitized by others<br>
<br>
</div>Google owns the copyright to the specific instances they have scanned<br>
into their databases.<br>
<br>
That increases the number of copies on earth, and does not diminished<br>
the public domain (though, if we want to be picky, it could be argued<br>
that the act of handling the original manuscripts really *does* cause<br>
damage, and if thousands of corporations were doing the same as<br>
Google, the cumulative effects could be problematic...).<br>
<br>
The concern I have is that society will come to rely upon those<br>
corporate copies, even just as thinking "We don't need to make another<br>
copy for 'backup', since we know somebody else is already storing this<br>
data.", and then, when the library burns to the ground, that<br>
information will be inaccessible unless we pay price above cost.<br>
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