While we're looking at Carr's Rough Type, yesterday's post is on the Google controversy:

It may be that the conflict will stir up some constructive, innovative ways to compensate content creators for the intellectual property used by Google and other companies. Perhaps a rights organization, like ASCAP in the music world, could be established to track the use of online content, collect reasonable fees and funnel a bit of money back to the creators. Or maybe, as Winer suggests, the best solution lies in simply adopting an opt-in model for many search-related services. As a first step toward a just resolution of the issue, it would be helpful if Google stopped acting as though it's doing the Lord's work and anyone standing in its way is a benighted Luddite. Just because you do no evil doesn't mean you do good.

posted by James DeLong @ 3:08 PM | Books

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