Wallace Koehler writes: “The Google book digitization project has caused something of a furor, perhaps even a firestorm, in the realm of intellectual property management. This issue is not solely for lawyers and academics; it can touch all of us in the information professions. On the one hand, Google may well provide researchers, users, and readers with an ever-widening and invaluable resource. On the other hand, it also may mean that a single economic for-profit entity could gain effective centralized control over much of the world’s information.”
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