Reuters: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em...A group of German publishers are banding together to create a web-based database allowing readers to browse, borrow or buy books online. The difference between their proposal and that of Google and Yahoo is that the publishers will keep the text of the books and allow search engines access, rather than hand over the full text to the search engines.
There's an interesting quote at the end: "Ulmer admitted there would always be a danger of hackers accessing whole books online, but said the problem of copyright was centuries old, and called for a legal framework to redress any fallout from copyright breaches... "We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don't need a wall," he said. "Even Goethe got angry that people copied his books," he added."
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