Comments on: Google Book Settlement May Be Unsettling to Government http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/google-book-settlement-may-be-unsettling-to-government.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Google: Pay No Attention to the Behemoth behind the Curtain | Web 2.0 Promotions http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/google-book-settlement-may-be-unsettling-to-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-77191 Google: Pay No Attention to the Behemoth behind the Curtain | Web 2.0 Promotions Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:21:17 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10792#comment-77191 [...] hasn’t been enough to defray government scrutiny of Google’s hiring practices, its agreement with book publishers or ties between its board and [...] [...] hasn’t been enough to defray government scrutiny of Google’s hiring practices, its agreement with book publishers or ties between its board and [...]

]]> By: Google Books Adds New Features - Web 2.0 Promotions http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/google-book-settlement-may-be-unsettling-to-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-76026 Google Books Adds New Features - Web 2.0 Promotions Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:26:12 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10792#comment-76026 [...] Google Books may still face government scrutiny over its author settlement, the service is forging ahead with new features—lots of new [...] [...] Google Books may still face government scrutiny over its author settlement, the service is forging ahead with new features—lots of new [...]

]]> By: Andreas Nurbo http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/google-book-settlement-may-be-unsettling-to-government.html/comment-page-1#comment-75393 Andreas Nurbo Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:52:44 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10792#comment-75393 I honestly think what Google is doing is crap. They have decided they want to scan books and sell them online. Then they go ahead and do so without any permission from the copyright holders. It is not only the american publishers and authors that are affected but publishers/authors all over the world. If this had been a teenage kid doing it on his own he would be in deep s*** and had lawyers on him up the wazoo and he would fail in court. Google started the project without asking anyone from what I understand and are continuing it during this whole mess. So in this case Google might be evil. <em>Andreas Nurbo's last blog post..<a href='http://andreasnurbo.com/55/gwo-wordpress-plugin-beta' rel="nofollow">GWO plugin for Wordpress: beta version released</a></em> I honestly think what Google is doing is crap. They have decided they want to scan books and sell them online. Then they go ahead and do so without any permission from the copyright holders. It is not only the american publishers and authors that are affected but publishers/authors all over the world.
If this had been a teenage kid doing it on his own he would be in deep s*** and had lawyers on him up the wazoo and he would fail in court.

Google started the project without asking anyone from what I understand and are continuing it during this whole mess.
So in this case Google might be evil.

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