• Judge strikes down Google's attempt to digitalize books.
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Hey guys let's not digitalize books because I'm a future-shocked old man :downs: let's keep using ink on dead trees!
[QUOTE=TH89;28769140]Good for authors who want to be paid for their work, bad for people who want to read books for free on the internet.[/QUOTE] Google offered 100mil per book per year in royalties. Most books don't get so much in a lifetime.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;28770183]Google offered 100mil per book per year in royalties. Most books don't get so much in a lifetime.[/QUOTE] They have about 15 million books scanned. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that only one million of those are in print and qualify for that offer. Google would be paying 1 TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR in royalties alone. So yeah, I think you might be mistaken about that.
Books should be on paper, but it's only a matter of time before paper stops holding the text of stories.
a note: copyright law in the US is confusing and exploitable as hell for example: The "I Have a Dream" speech for example, is still in copyright and will be until 2038, despite the fact that he won't be making money off of it and it has major historical value. currently, his really shitty children have ownership of it
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