Copyright cop-out stifles innovation

Interesting spin on the latest Google news from Graeme Philipson over on smh.com.au. Graeme says Publishers had a role in the old world. Their job was to aggregate information and sell it in a digestible form, for which they charged money. But the internet and other technologies made publishers’ roles as information clearing-house irrelevant, outdated, anachronistic and obsolete. The world has changed, but they have not.

August 30, 2005 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. leeb says:
    August 30, 2005 at 4:21 am

    Get the best of both worlds
    Publishers still play an important role as before, but the Internet has definitely become an alternative way of information dissemination and sharing. That means that publishers don’t have a monopoly any longer, and thus lost this market share to Internet. Why don’t publishers modernise and also publish on the Internet? Get the best of both worlds?

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  2. T Scott says:
    August 31, 2005 at 5:26 pm

    Google and Copyright
    Most publishers are indeed trying to achieve the “best of both worlds” that leeb suggests. Philipson’s article delivers the kind of tired rhetorical caricature that sounds good, but doesn’t actually get us anywhere. More here: http://tscott.typepad.com/tsp/2005/08/gibberish_on _go.html

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