Re: Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries a Say in Price - NYTimes.com

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
Date: May 21, 2009 11:04:29 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries a Say in  
Price - NYTimes.com

Dave, and everyone:

I am astonished by the entire Google book licensing scheme.

Section 8 of the US Constitution says that I, as an author, am  
entitled to be granted the exclusive rights to my work for a limited  
(although constantly expanding) period of time. It does NOT authorize  
the government to grant rights to that work to any third party. Doing  
so would not only exceed the powers granted to Congress by the  
Constitution (and thus be unconstitutional), but would also be an  
unconstitutional "taking" under the 5th Amendment.

I am astonished that the government would even consider granting to a  
single corporation -- most especially Google -- the exclusive right to  
use my works without my consent. I want companies to be able to bid  
for that right. What's more, given that Google, since its merger with  
DoubleClick, is the number one source of spyware "cookies" on the  
Internet and is lobbying in DC to regulate and destroy my business as  
an ISP, Google is the company to which I would be least likely to  
agree to license my work.

--Brett Glass





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