The issue of "fair use" has returned -- a proposed copyright law in Australia would restrict Google, and, according to the company, "condemn the Australian public to the pre-internet era." Read more here.
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The issue of "fair use" has returned -- a proposed copyright law in Australia would restrict Google, and, according to the company, "condemn the Australian public to the pre-internet era." Read more here.
DougC,
Come on out from behind that article.
Ausie Law - "halting" the Internet, not in our world over here!
Speak your piece, straight out.- Let's hear it.
Ken
It amazes me when this sort of thing happens - new government regulations intended to plug up multinationals' nefarious activities threaten their existence, and they justify their questionable practices by claiming prior (ab)use. It shouldn't need pre-emptive legislation to ensure compliance.
Google does not own the internet. They use it, just like every other consumer of that wonderful entity. When told "you cannot do that anymore with that shared resource", the appropriate response is not "if someone doesn't like us doing it, then they can stop us individually". That's what a government regulation is - an expression that it is something that should be stopped for the good of all, not the few.
Being a particularly useful internet service is no excuse for riding rough-shod over governments. That's the path Microsoft takes, and only the EC and the USDOJ have attempted to stand in its path.
Aside from that, there's the copyright issue - how can Google profit morally from material they have no right to re-broadcast?
Viva internet/information search and retrieval, but not at the price Google expects.
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