Monday, June 27, 2005

Grokster hours and counting

With hours to go before the US Supreme Court announce their decision in the Grokster case, the experts have been speculating on the outcome. Not that this is anything new of course. The speculation began on the day of the hearing. Ernest Miller has a convincing argument on why this and the post decision mass online analysis and debate are a good thing. In a nutshell - open debate about important issues by smart people improves the overall knowedge pool for society and that's good.

Meanwhile, copyright news on this side of the pond is that the French have decided to act on their worries about Google's project to digitise major academic libraries and produce a French equivalent. Good for them.

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