Re: Re: Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book"

BTW, Amazon has just changed the software so that one may not copy a page.

John

At 12:26 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, David Dailey wrote:
>Parts of this thread have left me bemused.
>
>When I read Amazon's announcement, I thought "Wow, what market clout
>Amazon must have to convince all those publishers to give them permission
>to use the full text in this way, particularly given the nervousness some
>of those publishers exhibited toward the internet in the early years."
>
>Others seem to have thought "what a nasty Amazon to so boldly infringe the
>copyrights of all those quaint publishers, particularly given the
>cyber-scary way Amazon and the Internet have already upset the status quo
>of publishing".
>
>I readily assumed Amazon's innocence; others seem to have just as readily
>assumed their guilt. I guess one's perspective has to do with one's fear
>or celebration of the cutting edge. That polarity is probably at the core
>of many of today's disputes concerning copyright philosophy.
>
>David Dailey
>
>
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