Re: Re: Authors Guild

• Original Message ----- From: Mike Bradley <mbradley[_at_]techpubs.com> Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:45 pm Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Authors Guild

> In other words, Google will index a book whether its rights holder
> wantsthe book to be indexed or not,

I can read a published book, whether the rights holder (if there is one) wants me to or not.

Any act which is not the exclusive right of the rights holder to do (or to authorize) is open to me to do, "whether its rights holder wants" me to, or not.

Copyright, last time I checked -- and I admit, one should check frequently these days -- is not absolute. One cannot restrain an act which you do not have the sole right to do or to authorize. Received on Thu Sep 29 2005 - 02:38:51 GMT