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Google Buzz Grabbing Content

Posted on March 2, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Jesse Stay has a new post noting that Google Buzz pulls in the full-text of posts and strips any ads that might accompany them. From the post:

To be clear, I’m fine with them either displaying the ads that I put there (and allowing me to monetize off the other ads that are on the page), or just summarizing the article and encouraging users to click through to my site. I’m not okay with Google scraping my content, stripping my ads, altering my content, and pushing it out for them to get 100% of the revenues off of something I spent time and money making.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/27/2010

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Alison Flood is reporting that thousands of authors are opting out of the Google Book Settlement. From the article:

“My feelings were, in the end, that I doubted I would lose out by opting out, whereas I might do by opting in. Also there was the principle that copyright is important,” said novelist Marika Cobbold, author of books including Guppies for Tea and Shooting Butterflies

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Google, Codecs and Openness

Posted on February 23, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Glyn Moody has a new post about Google’s acquisition of On2 Technologies Inc., a company behind the video codec VP8. Moody wonders about the possibility that Google might offer the codec free and open. Discussion about video codecs has always been ongoing, but the exclusion of Flash on the iPad has triggered a new round of debate. From the post:

The reason why it might want to go to all that trouble is to free itself from any dependence on the patent-encumbered codecs of others, and to promote a flourishing open video ecosystem, and with it lots of lovely content that it can sell ads against.

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Google Gives Wikimedia $2 Million

Posted on February 19, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The Wikimedia Foundation is announcing that it has received $2 million from Google. From the announcement:

The two organizations have a long-standing working relationship. Most recently, Google and the Wikimedia Foundation have partnered to support translation of Wikipedia content into key languages with relatively small Wikipedia editions. Google’s Translation Toolkit supports direct online translation of Wikipedia articles, and has been used by Google in Wikipedia translation pilot projects with speakers of Arabic, Hindi, and Swahili.

Also, a 30 minute audio interview with Jimmy Wales.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/19/2010

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Google Book Settlement News 2/18/2010

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  • IPWatchdog on a patent filed by Google concerning copyright enforcement based on location.
  • Techcrunch on why the settlement should matter to the technology sector.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/15/2010

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Google Book Settlement News 2/12/2010

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Larry Lessig has written an article for The New Republic on the Google Books Settlement. From the article:

To grasp the problem, you must actually open up the 165-page-long settlement and read a bit of the language. (The first twenty or so pages are definitions, so skim those.) Very quickly, one sees that the Twitter version of this settlement sounds better than the actual document reads. For rather than a relatively simple rule about how much of a book you get for free, and when you have to pay, the actual terms are enormously complex. Whether a book is “free” depends upon the kind of book it is. Journals have a different rule from regular books. Books with pictures have a different rule again.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/11/2010

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  • The Google Books blog shares its experience digitizing Latin American works with the University of Texas.
  • Alix Vance writes on Google Books Terms of Service and how they may be designed to blunt Microsoft efforts.

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Google Book Settlement News 2/8/2010

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has announced its opposition to the revised Google Book settlement. The Department of Justice notes that the revised settlement is better than the original. From the post:

But it [the Department of Justice] said that “the United States has reluctantly concluded that use of the class-action mechanism in the manner proposed by the [Amended Settlement Agreement] is a bridge too far.” It also said that anti-trust concerns persist over pricing arrangements and a Google monopoly.

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