The move to scan 18 million books and digitalize them by Google, I think is a notable one and one that should be endorsed. Preserving knowledge and creativity for future generations, however far into the future, until a better way of storing knowledge is found, is a sound idea right? Most of the books that are to be scanned and digitalized are out of print and the owners of the copyrights cannot be found so what’s the harm in doing this. Surely, it’s better to preserve these works of creativity and knowledge now than waste time disagreeing over copyrights, for which ownership is unclear anyways. For the most part, the authors who had the copyrights for these books let them fall into this obscure existence in the first place. So if the author doesn’t care, why should the government threaten amateurs who use this creativity and knowledge to further a hybrid RO/RW culture?
The whole system as a whole seems much too complicated to be even remotely efficient any more.
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