Showing posts with label snippets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snippets. Show all posts
Friday, January 11, 2013
Irish Newspapers Budge Slightly: Now Say Links Don't Require Payment, But Snippets...; TechDirt.com, 1/9/13
Mike Masnick,, TechDirt.com; Irish Newspapers Budge Slightly: Now Say Links Don't Require Payment, But Snippets... :
"Meanwhile, the lawyers representing the charity have noticed that NLI appears to have backtracked ever so slightly and are now saying that "links alone" are not infringement, but if you include any text, you've gone over the line."
Friday, August 28, 2009
Has Google Already Won The Book War?; Forbes, 8/26/09
Dirk Smillie via Forbes; Has Google Already Won The Book War?:
It scanned first and asked questions later. Opponents of a rights settlement may not have a chance.
"Excerpts, and in many cases the entire contents, of a staggering number of books are readily available on Google Book Search, yet some of the most definitive works on Google itself are nowhere to be found at the site. Recent searches for Jeff Jarvis' What Would Google Do?, David Vise's The Google Story and John Battelle's The Search produced the following message: "no preview."
Snippets and excerpts of 7 million other books do show up in the database, which critics accuse of being unfairly selective and financially unjust to writers. These are some of the concerns held by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, which last week fired off an e-mail alert to its authors, urging them to opt out of a complex settlement between Google ( GOOG - news - people ), the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers."
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/26/google-books-morris-business-media-copyright.html
It scanned first and asked questions later. Opponents of a rights settlement may not have a chance.
"Excerpts, and in many cases the entire contents, of a staggering number of books are readily available on Google Book Search, yet some of the most definitive works on Google itself are nowhere to be found at the site. Recent searches for Jeff Jarvis' What Would Google Do?, David Vise's The Google Story and John Battelle's The Search produced the following message: "no preview."
Snippets and excerpts of 7 million other books do show up in the database, which critics accuse of being unfairly selective and financially unjust to writers. These are some of the concerns held by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, which last week fired off an e-mail alert to its authors, urging them to opt out of a complex settlement between Google ( GOOG - news - people ), the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers."
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/26/google-books-morris-business-media-copyright.html
Monday, November 3, 2008
MySpace ad deal lets members use copyright video - BusinessWeek, 10/2/08
Via BusinessWeek.com: MySpace ad deal lets members use copyright video:
"Instead of trying to take down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace will let certain clips stay -- and give the creators of the original content a cut of the revenue from advertising that will be attached to the snippets."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94773G80.htm
"Instead of trying to take down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace will let certain clips stay -- and give the creators of the original content a cut of the revenue from advertising that will be attached to the snippets."
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D94773G80.htm
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