Re: Neat summary of Google strategy

From: "Chris"
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, joseph harris wrote:
>
>> Presumably the fanatics are making the seismic shifts! 
>> ;-)
>
> For now, they are the fanatics.  Later?

Ah! That wasn't partisan; it was a response to dej and 
included both sides of the issue - possibly myself as one! 
;-)

>
>
> Ran across this article today, from 2003, that suggests 
> this has
> all happened before.
>
> "Suing Your Customers: A Winning Business Strategy?"
>
> http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=863&specialid=86
>
> It relates how when Henry Ford introduced low-priced mass
> manufactured cars, he was opposed by the existing car 
> producers
> who made high priced custom works for rich customers. They 
> tried
> having an intellectual property right in automobiles and
> preventing Ford from being licensed.
>
> At one point they sued people who purchased Fords for 
> buying
> unlicensed cars.
>
> This did not go over well with the car-buying public.
>
> So - do people in the book industry see themselves as 
> producing
> high priced custom works, or do they see themselves as 
> producing
> books that are "any colour you want as long as it is 
> black"?
>
> I know it's nowhere near a great analogy, but perhaps 
> thinking
> about the question may still be enlightening.
>
>
> : chris smith 
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> : nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - 
> cicero :
>

I suppose it is very much like Google trying to corner all 
orphans and take rights to both place works on a database 
and print any it chooses that are not its in law! But the 
issue of people is that a rather vociferous group wants for 
free what most customers are happy to pay for.

The mistake is to think that online is the only world in the 
game, or that the majority online do not pay without demur 
for what they know is copyright.

By the way Mary points out her main thrust is web pages; 
mine is books and similar works. Are you also commenting 
more about webpages than books?

Joseph Harris 



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