saintonge at telus
Jun 20, 2009, 2:35 PM
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Re: Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship
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Brian wrote:
> That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS.
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> I'm mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing we
> can do about it except complain to them. Which I don't know how to do - they
> apparently believe that the plain text versions of their books are akin to
> their intellectual property and are unwilling to give them away.
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How is violating Google's ToS against the law? Sites put all sorts of
meaningless garbage into these documents, and users mostly ignore them.
Of course Google's evil; it's about time that people noticed that. They
use their deep pockets as a way to bully other sites ... with a smile.
Fortunately the U.S. does not have database protection laws like the
E.U. Ideally, every PD item they host should also be hosted on an
alternative site, but that's a massive undertaking, ... and they know
it. Nothing requires them to be nice to the competition, such as by
making it easy to copy their material.
Ec
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