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INDEXING PLANET KNOWLEDGE: THROWING GOOGLE AT THE BOOK *PIC*
Since this article -- published at Spiegel Online -- deals with copyright law and the future of publishing (Mercury in Sagittarius now) I only show you a small introduction excerpt. You would do well to study the whole long piece at the Spiegel Online Source Link below:
INDEXING THE PLANET
Throwing Google at the Book
By Farhad Manjoo
Google's new search engine of books puts a world of knowledge at our fingertips. Publishers say the Internet giant is robbing them of their rightful fees. Maybe it's time to call copyright laws history.
Just the announcement last December elicited a thrill. Google, the young oracle that brought order and sense to the World Wide Web, now planned to take on the printed word, reaching into major university libraries to scan and digitize all the knowledge contained in books. The company promised to make every printed book as accessible as a Web site, allowing anyone with Internet access to search through every page on every book for any particular word or phrase. Google had signed deals allowing it to scan millions of books at Stanford, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library. So ambitious was the effort that its only real analogues were the stuff of legend and fiction: the lost library at Alexandria and Jorge Luis Borges' fantastical Library of Babel. On hearing of Google's effort, one librarian told the New York Times, ''Our world is about to change in a big, big way."
A year later, Google's grand plan to digitize the world's books still seems as fantastical as it did when it was first proposed. Earlier this year, the company started scanning books at libraries, and on Nov. 3 launched an elegant beta version of its book search engine -- but the project faces an uncertain future.
At issue is copyright law: Does Google have the legal right to copy library books and make them searchable online? Trade groups for authors and publishers say no. In September, the Authors Guild, a professional society of more than 8,000 writers, filed suit against Google to stop the scanning project; in October, the Association of American Publishers, which represents large publishing houses, also sued. Both groups charge that Google, which does not plan to ask authors and publishers for permission before it scans their books, would engage in massive copyright infringement -- and also cost the book industry a great deal of potential revenues -- if it goes ahead with its effort.
My "seer opinion" is this: We are moving to the omni net, and eventually everything online, from software to operating systems to publishing will become free of charge or next to affordable for everyone. Mr. Gates might pay attention here now. One of the things I predicted in my book -- analyzing the trends ahead -- is that we will as a group of human beings venture out to take the indexing of knowledge and the dissemination of ideas away from the New World Order instruments and into our own fine hands. Obviously it was foreseeable to any astute astrologer that Pluto in Sagittarius would change everything about truth, publishing, and copyrights. Ideas are for free and given to us by an invisible world of guidance. Publishers should have listened up when they saw this link below beginning to be circulated all around the world... and I might add that RumorMillNews.com had the exclusive scoop on showing it to the world ;-)
Here is the 220 page strong book pdf that is circulated around the world since early 2004, free of charge, in the spirit of the free for all future omni-net... It is no good to talk about the future and what will or might be, unless we are willing to walk the talk and eventuate the process at once by simply doing it.
