Google wantonly engages in the world's largest copyright infringement
enterprise on the planet. Google illegally scanned copyrighted material
without consent of the copyright owner and placed that content for free
on Google Books so they could sell advertising around it. I was a victim
of that as were many other authors I know.
Despite their argument about only showing 20%, it is not a fixed 20%, it
is based on search phrases. Once you have access to the index of a book,
you can search for each word in the index and eventually obtain the
entire book. I know this because I received an email from someone in
India demanding I send him the entire book in Word format so he could
put it on the company server (he worked for an off-shore IT firm). This
is how I found out Google had scanned this book:
http://theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/app_book.html
The case against Google is still going on. It will eventually go to the
Supreme Court.
You can read more about the image copyright issue here:
http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html
Referencing an original work directly from its host via the url AND
providing a link back to the original hosting location is not generally
considered copyright infringement. Thus, something like
http://www.somesite.com/theirImage.png is fine. Making a local copy on
actual media, for whatever reason, without permission of the copyright
holder is illegal.
On 04/12/2017 06:50 AM, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Roland Hughes
<rol...@logikalsolutions.com <mailto:rol...@logikalsolutions.com>> wrote:
it is illegal to copy the image without the express written
consent of the copyright holder.
Good to know that most image thumbnails hosted on google's server are
illegal.
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Logikal Solutions
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