loner - 1:31 pm on Mar 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

The copyright laws were designed to protect an author's right to control their own work. So let's not forget what Google is doing; scanning books and puting the content on the net. The author is no longer in control.

Now forget the internet part of this. The web is a whore. I figured out that a long time ago; So accordingly, the work I value, the creative product I originate, is put into print, not on the internet. When I sell a book I do not provide the right to reproduce that book to anyone that buys it.

Google is stealing and their thievery is motivated by profit. Authors of print publications are no longer in control of their creative work.

I'm glad a big guy like MS is saying something. Lord knows our government doesn't have the guts to- after all, look what they let happen to the rights of artists in the music industry.