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November 30, 2006
Google Stands Alone
Although Yahoo! offered Google backing in the Sitemap technology, opted not to offer any help in Google's book-scanning court case. Amazon.com, also received a subpoena in October. Neither Amazon.com nor Yahoo!, however, were interested in helping Google with its copyright infringement defense.
In regards to the subpoena Yahoo! accused Google of trying to "pry into [Yahoo's] trade secrets." Likewise, Amazon.com called the subpoena "overly broad and unduly burdensome."
Google court case is due to both the Association of American Publishers and and The Author's Guild suing Google for its book-scanning practices. Google does have and "opt-out policy" that requires copyright holders to ask Google not to scan or make any part of a copyrighted document available. Neither The Author's Guild nor the Association of American Publishers approve of this practice.
Another part of Google's defense is that scanning is the same as its indexing of websites. They also claim that providing blurbs of text in response to a search is accepted under standards of fair use.
I personally do not think Google should be sued. The internet is full of text and having to ask permission from every single copyright holder and verifying that every website has rights to its content is a task that could not be completed withing this lifetime.
Posted by meb40 at November 30, 2006 09:54 PM
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