Re: "New Kindle Fire Review"
Jeroen Hellingman <[email protected]>
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On 2012-10-30 17:20, James Adcock wrote: > requirement that one own a Google device in order to use > Google Books. And Google is sponsoring digitization of old books on > campuses in exchange for restrictions that prevent those colleges from being > allowed them to distribute those digitizations. Even though those > digitizations are of "risen to the public domain" books - i.e. they SHOULD > be freely redistributable. This is Google putting the Google copyfraud back > onto public domain books. This is neatly circumvented by The Internet Archive, on which the user "tpb" (The Pirate Bay?) copies Public Domain Google scans at a high rate without the geographic restrictions... Since those scans are PD, this is fully legal, as The Internet Archive has no contractual obligation not to distribute them... Jeroen. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d