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  A bit of old news, but I just noticed this reply... Although I do believe paintings are subject to copyright laws, and the creators owns the copyright to the work, that is not the case here... Now, if Google were to show a 5 px X 5 px section of the painting, that'd be a correct analogy. Oh, and not only that, but if you read over the technical specifications that Google has released about the program, they are even implanting measures to make sure that not only do you only see that 5 px X 5 px section, you can't see more then 2 or 3 of them... So no chance you?d be able to see the entire work.
  
  I can go to Barns and Nobles, pick up any book I'd like, take a seat in a comfortable chair, and read an entire chapter. Most of the time I could even have a White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks while I'm reading. I don't see publishers putting plastic covers around their publications to prevent people from doing this, and in that time that I have there book in my hands, I read a whole hell of a lot more then what I'd be able to see online via Google.
  
  Google isn?t trying to rip people off, or allow people to get stuff for free. They are trying to make the worlds knowledge accessible, and searchable? With all of the technology that we have available to us today, why not make good use of it?

  July 3, 2006

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• Drummod said it best
  Book publishers are complaining because they think they are going to loose money if anyone can just go online and read a book... Come on people, I am a very tech savvy person, but that doesn?t mean that I want to sit in front of my computer screen to read a book. Granted, Google is a public company which needs to make money too. But, not only are they going to foot the bill for the massive scanning project, plus the server, storage, and bandwidth fees, but what they are doing is making knowledge publicly available to all. I know that if I can see exactly what a books about, and if I like the literary style, I am going to be buying more.
  
  Bottom line, this is a good project that Google is undertaking, so why shouldn?t they be able to make some cash by doing it?

  October 19, 2005

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