[Taxacom] google, copyright and micropayment

[Donat Agosti]

Google Plans Tools to Help News Media Charge for Content


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/google-plans-tools-to-help-news-med
ia-charge-for-content/?scp=5
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dia-charge-for-content/?scp=5&sq=google&st=cse> &sq=google&st=cse

 

This is a new proposal from google that sounds reasonable for those who want
or have  to sell a product, like the newspapers, where the targeted use is
reading one page after the other.

 

However, what that could mean for us is that the real chance of the
Internet, having the machine do a lot of the work by mining and extracting
information from open access journals and databases will be gone.

 

This seems to me an other urgent call to really assure that all our
publications are open access, that is that we do not publish in journals
that do not allow open access.

 

Donat

 

 

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