End (judicial) conflict: Google can digitize books for your platform Google Books. This was decided by a ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday. With this ruling, the Court dropped an order signed by the American Authors Guild, who felt that the company violated its copyright. The portal “Google Books” provides basic information, like the author, publisher and date of publication of a book, scan a few dozen pages and includes in some cases links to web pages where you can buy the book. Readers can reach them by the author’s name, the book or the subject. If the book is not protected by copyright you can read or download whole.
The Union, supported by renowned authors like Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin or Nobel J.M. Coetzee, asked in December 2015 to the Court to assess the case because Google violates “clear and blatant form” the law of copyright.
Since 2005, when he started to build his “library” google scanned over 20 million books.
How does this affect the book industry “. Not much, believes the Argentine editor Alejandro Katz. “Google has a negative logic for democracy, because the way it gives you results that seeks always right, then on Google each is right in his own platitudes” says the editor. But Google Books is not the reason why people decide not to have books or buy books or find books or read books. Instead, it is a good tool to find books that one would need to know that there are “.
What the proponents claim?
” Google Books does not affect the rights author, “says Katz. Because only a few pages are published and because an author can decide that his book is not there. But it must do so explicitly.
“The only tricky, he says Katz-is the orphan books (those who did not fall into the public domain but have no heirs dealing with the management of rights ). “for Google raises it as public domain (those whose authors died 70 years ago and no longer pay fees). If no one claims, there are
“What made Google concludes Katz in principo was illegal. Scan books outside. But make a database and tell you where conseguis a book is legitimate. And this is what I just said the US Supreme Court. That is, Google Books is an awful benefit to the search engine Google, but not a terrible disservice to the world of books “
Do not think so Augusto Di Marco, the multinational publisher Penguin. Random House. “This bill breaks a bit the links between the author and his work,” says Di Marco. “The copyright system is perfectible, but the best we have.”
The American authors also believe there is prejudice. In a statement, they said the court decision “is proof that we have a vast redistribution of wealth, who moves from the creative industries to technology sectors. And this happens not only with books but across the spectrum of the arts. “
Google, however, stated that” Google Books gives readers a new way to find books that interest them “. According to the company, “the interests of authors” also defend.
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