quote:Originally posted by TheTimeTrust: BTW, Dave, I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts about what Amazon.com has done with hundreds of thousands of books: They've had them scanned and every book converted to text in order to allow text-based searches on their site.
Currently, though, an authors' guild is planning on suing Amazon for breach of copyright, claiming that it's all too easy for someone to read an entire novel online through Amazon's search engine, which brings up several pages of scans at once through a certain use of the search engine. I'll look for some links that describe the situation a bit better, but that's it in a nutshell. What are your thoughts? Is Amazon.com out of line?
I hand't heard about this, and find it very interesting.
I always assumed Amazon had a deal with the publishers to allow them to scan select pages. Kind of an elementary thing to do, really. Copying without consent is blatant infringement.
