International Law

What!? Google Showing Signs of Respecting Copyright?

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

Eubusiness.com has a report about the recent hearing on the Google book search settlement in Brussels, with the headline of “Google removes European titles from digital book deal”. The article goes on to state that “books commercially available” in Europe will be excluded from the Google landgrab, and their idea of copyright (”we use everything without asking until someone shows up to object”) won’t apply to those works.

That would indeed seem to be somewhat of a concession, as the Eubusiness.com article calls it.

Then again, the report on Google’s very own European Policy report by “Engineering Director” Daniel Clancy about this hearing certainly does not mention any “concessions” or even the fact that Google might have a problem with European publishers and governments.

Google respecting copyright? I’ll believe it when I see it,

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).