Aaron Swartz writes on Google Weblog, which is not Google’s official blog, that “Google’s reported policy of not speaking to News.com reporters continues to make them look silly.” Just as it does any other company that says “no comment” in the age of the Internet.
The official Google blog defends Google against the Author’s Guild lawsuit to stop Google Print. You can bet that when rising behemoth Google wants to get a message out, they have instant access to many millions of people worldwide — enough to move markets and change opinions.
“Google respects copyright.” says the Google blog. “The use we make of all the books we scan through the Library Project is fully consistent with both the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law and the principles underlying copyright law itself, which allow everything from parodies to excerpts in book reviews.”
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And this is the problem.
Google is getting too big. Too powerful. If Google continues to behave in this manner, it will backfire.
Langley is already concerned about their growing ‘intelligence capability’ (IP logging and profiling of searches) and the spectre of privacy concerns and digital trails is becoming a problem.
I present http://www.google-watch.org.
Who is really paying attention to Google’s ‘web’ of control.
More on Google versus authors
Google, deciding to skip the “play nice with the media” stuff, has evidently refused to talk to News.com but is proclaiming their “but we only wanted to … ” POV on their own blog. And I find, reading B.L. Ochman’s…