Comments on Bookride: Google Books -'A Library to Last Forever'

PM is right. When the extension came, the change w...

2009-10-20T17:12:19.748Z

PM is right. When the extension came, the change was a nightmare for reference (and no doubt other) editors as the extension made some projects unworkable.

Nigel, can I take advantage of your space to digress and say a time-warp thank you to PM for his courtesy in making sure years ago that we got a genuine first of one of the slipcased Harry Potters for our eldest (Azbakhan I think) - Bloomsbury had messed it up and PM sorted it. Thanks PM.

Good cartoon in recent Private Eye re reference books and Google.

Isn't the UK copyright now 70 years after the auth...

2009-10-20T09:35:41.440Z

Isn't the UK copyright now 70 years after the author's death? I quote : "Under the 1995 Regulations, the period of author's copyright was further extended, to the lifetime of the author and 70 years thereafter. Those regulations were retrospective: they extended the copyright period for all works which were then still in copyright, and (controversially) revived the lapsed copyright of all authors who had died in the previous 70 years, i.e. since 1925.

Sorry, I meant that Google have millions of books ...

2009-10-19T22:49:06.289Z

Sorry, I meant that Google have millions of books published well before 1923- before 1900 even- which are out of copyright worldwide (I think it's seventy years after the author's death now in the E.U.) but which are available only as snippets or not at all. It would be more useful if those books that are undoubtedly out of copyright throughout the world were openly available before they negotiate over books that are still in copyright.

The Stanford-Lockheed Meyer Library Flood Report t...

2009-10-19T19:11:57.558Z

The Stanford-Lockheed Meyer Library Flood Report that Sergey couldn't find is available at Hayward and UCLA in Cal and a couple of other places. I guess the one at Stanford disappeared in the second deluge!

Thanks Thersites--I have now tried to make it cle...

2009-10-19T17:56:38.892Z

Thanks Thersites--I have now tried to make it clearer in this posting but actually they have millions of books pre 1923. In the Uk we have different copyright laws (as I recall books go out of copyright 50 years after the author's death) so that 'Ulysses' is out of copyright for example.

Does Mr Brin say why books published before 1923 a...

2009-10-19T07:15:28.919Z

Does Mr Brin say why books published before 1923 aren't available on google?