On 2012-10-30 17:20, James Adcock wrote:
requirement that one own a Google device in order to use Google Books. And Google is sponsoring digitization of old books on campuses in exchange for restrictions that prevent those colleges from being allowed them to distribute those digitizations. Even though those digitizations are of "risen to the public domain" books - i.e. they SHOULD be freely redistributable. This is Google putting the Google copyfraud back onto public domain books.
This is neatly circumvented by The Internet Archive, on which the user "tpb" (The Pirate Bay?) copies Public Domain Google scans at a high rate without the geographic restrictions... Since those scans are PD, this is fully legal, as The Internet Archive has no contractual obligation not to distribute them... Jeroen.