Alistair Coleman reports in BBC news on a speech by Alexander Macgillivray at the Oxford Internet Institute. Macgillivray is Google's senior product counsel. Two nuggets:
"We totally believe we have the right to index absolutely everything on the internet, but we will respect any webmaster's decision not to be included," said the California-based legal counsel....
Rather than antagonise the publishing community further, he told the Oxford seminar, Google was actively searching for a compromise that all parties would find acceptable.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/12/2005 08:43:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
