GOOGLE copyright for me but none for thee
January 28th, 2010
A sample of a Google page from their book search. This is for Spiderman: Back in Black.
And at the bottom of the page…
I not only found no copyright or trademark information on the listings of my books, but the bibliographies were often incorrect.
I had no idea I had a co-author on A Distant Soil: Immigrant Song.
But isn’t it charming that Google made sure to slap their copyright info on there? Yeah, I love that.
Irony, that’s beautiful, man.
Here I am Google. Sitting on my website, violating your copyright. Your copyright of other people’s stuff.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:19 am
I hope some lawyer decides to sue for you.
January 29th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Google, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberrys! Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
January 29th, 2010 at 7:01 am
um, actually I’m pretty sure the intent of that copyright notice is for the page that the info is on? But just in case, don’t forget to reload
January 29th, 2010 at 11:13 am
What Google claims the copyright to here is their bibliographic listing of other people’s works. Which is proper. If you were to write a book which is a listing of bibliographic info, that’s copyrightable.
But there is no copyright or trademark information here about the owners of the original works. The bibliography would not exist without other people’s stuff.
I think that’s funny.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
oh I get it. They don’t list your copyrights but don’t forget to copyright their own. Irony that.
January 29th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Me likey. It amuses.