If Google's Book Scanning Violates Copyright Law, What About The...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 18:02

Danny Sullivan does a great job calling out the hypocrisy of the Associated Press yet again. The organization, which has taken a very maximalist position on copyright, where fair use gets mostly ignored , apparently had no problem scanning Sarah Palin's entire book into a computer so that reporters could search it.

Of course, this is no different than what Google is doing with its book scanning program (which, again, I still believe is a clear case of...

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