Will Femia, author of the "Clicked" blog on MSNBC.com, declares today that:
"Lessig is wrong — Lawrence Lessig is a champion of the Creative Commons movement and an advocate for loosening copyright restrictions. His current battle is over the digitization of books. Google wants to scan books into a database to make the text searchable. You wouldn't get the whole book in a search, just an excerpt. Ignoring whether this is a good idea or a handy utility, this blogger makes a good argument against Google's plan. For what it's worth, there is a larger issue at play as well, which is whether search engines and other services that surface material from the Web (like RSS aggregators) are taking advantage of the original content holders."
There's more to it than this excerpt, so check out the whole thing if you have the time. Actually, you should probably make the time regardless. This issue will not go away any time soon.
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