Wired 13.11: Posts

GOOGLE MAKES COPIES RIGHT--THE BENEFITS TO ALL ARE HUGE

Lawrence Lessig has written a thoughtful piece in Wired Magazine. The bottom line of the article is that the internet is for the benefit of all in the same way a card catalogue in a public library is there for the benefit of all.

I hope Google sticks to its guns and fights these silly law suits to their final conclusion. I see no way that the Supreme Court would destroy the internet to give publishers a lock on digital content. Google's system does not make copies of others works for distribution. It simply makes a complete card catalogue so that potential readers can find appropriate books.

GO Google GO! The Guetenberg Printing Press was the last invention that helped widely distribute knowledge that hereto for was often lost. Google Print (and the competing services offered by ,MSFT, YAHOO and others) will do more good for the world than most can even imagine.