The debate about the status of Google’s BookSearch Project (fair use or infringement?) is still raging.
Lessig’s blog has a great comment string discussing the various positions, both moral and juridical that can be taken on this case.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, who is offering a class this Spring called Copyright, Commerce, and Culture (E59.1405, call # 42699), wrote a really interesting paper discussing his thoughts on what he calls “The Risky Gamble” Google is taking.
The U Chic Faculty blog presents some interesting thoughts on the revenue stream that copyright holders are (or are not) entitled to.
Andrew Raff’s Blog provides a pretty comprehensive list (with links) of the people and presses currently covering the topic–a couple of the above are included.
I highly recommend that you guys read these; I’m not sure yet what FC @NYU can do with this whole thing, but you can bet that as soon as I think of it, we are going to do something.
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