The publishers aren't just after Google

It was good to note, in an item from The Bookseller, that spokespersons for the publishing community aren'tjust out to get Google.

“A plan [discussed on this blog before] by the European Commission to digitise the contents of Europe's libraries has been branded a threat to copyright laws by the Federation of European Publishers.”

So they're being even-handed in their knee-jerk lashing out against progress and increased access to information. Well, that's reassuring.

Google Print isn't planning to allow Internet users to read an in-copyright work from cover to cover online; they're going to offer options to buy or (hopefully) borrow a copy, raising awareness of currently under-read works.

No organisation has a right to exist. No organisation has a right to their ancient business model. The world moves on. Move on too, or get out of the way.

There is scope for making money from the publication of other people's creative endeavours. There is undoubtedly a requirement to protect the rights of those creative individuals over a reasonable period of time. But locking 'published' content away and making it harder to access at the same time as so much else becomes easier seems a sure way to have the world decide that you're increasingly irrelevant.

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