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Viacom is a big, fat copyright bully. To read more about this ridiculous situation with TheKnightShift vs. Viacom, see my blog entry here:
http://nalts.wordpress.com/…
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A couple of confuzzling points:

1 – The ads aren’t FOR Nine Inch Nails albums or merch or anything. They’re just general ads, and the money that comes from those ads goes to NIN.

2 – My problem i…

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 10:05 pm and is filed under E- Books , Public Domain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Sony Offers One Million Public …

When he showed up to work at Google, they told him they wanted to digitize the world’s books ; he was a bit daunted. They figured out the logistical/technical challenges, and they felt they could navigate the fair use challenges. …

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Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Google Books: Equal access to knowledge

Think you have read every piece of literature on the face of the earth and books hold no longer hold any secrets for you? Then here is your chance to prove how much your know by entering a new competition launched by the Mountain View …

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» Play the Google Books Game, Win a Sony Reader

There have been lots of reports flying around recently about the decision by Amazon to delete copies of two works by George Orwell (ironic, that) from the Kindle devices of folks who thought they had bought those books for once and for …

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Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Books in the cloud

ACRLog – Blogging by and for academic and research librarians.

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Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books

The Boston Globe reports Friday on a growing concern arising out of the Google Books project: that the search-engine giant will end up with monopolistic control of access to millions of scanned digital books .

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The Google Books Project: An Antitrust Case in the Making? – Law …

Google’s growing digital book project is making some in the publishing world nervous – a fact the search giant is trying to change.

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FurdLog » Google Working To Defuse Google Books Concerns

Most of the new ways of reading books online that the settlement makes possible will not require any kind of registration or account with Google. For example, people who use institutional subscriptions, such as students at subscribing …

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Inside Google Books: The Google Books settlement and privacy …