The Print Debate

The lawyer in me may be coming out, but I'm fascinated by the Google Print project and I'm going to watch the webcast of the New York Public Library/Wired Magazine debate.  Titled "The Battle over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Print Library Project", the cast of characters is interesting, including Chris Anderson, David Drummond, Lawrence Lessig, Allan Adler (AAP), David Ferriero (NYPL), Paul LeClerc (NYPL) and Nick Taylor (NYPL)

If anyone else cares to join me, Ross has agreed to open up the Socialtext conference room so I can watch it on a big screen and pretend I was at the sold out event.  It starts at 4 pacific.

Lots of discussion on the topic over the last few months.  See here, here , and here for some background perspective.   I must admit that thinking about the topic now and then seems, well, important.   Here's how Tim O'Reilly tagged one of his posts on the issue:

google long tail web 20 copyright books ethics

I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem if I added economics and culture to the list.

Comments

[Carla]

Hey

Thanks for this post about Google Print project, i am studying this subject for school and this post clarified some things for me

Greets

Carla