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Library Journal interview with Brewster Kahle | digitizationblog

Library Journal interview with Brewster Kahle

Available here. A snippet -- LJ: "You've been critical of Google's library partnerships. What is Google doing right and/or wrong?" BK: "Two problems: one is perpetual restrictions on the public domain. Another is that these negotiations are all going on in secret."

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LJ - "How challenging are

LJ - "How challenging are copyright issues, such as orphan works, in getting our literary past online and accessible?"

BK - "It's bad out there. If we had the copyright of Richard Nixon, the Internet would be a much more interesting, thriving place. We're showing the results of decades of successful lobbyists with very narrow interests hijacking the information age."

Sad but true.