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The Next Good Idea

The Google Of Films LEGALLY On The Web?

Speedcine beta launches.

Definitely a good idea.
Please don’t steal our creative work (or anyone’s work for that matter) unless we ask you to. Thanks.
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Issues and Actions

Google Book Settlement Discussion

Scott Macauley is on this issue more diligently than I can be.  Check out his post on the Filmmaker Blog.  He quotes from Peter Osnos on Today’s Zaman :

But the major point is that Google has now conceded, with a very large payment, that “information is not free.” This leads to an obvious, critical question: Why aren’t newspapers and magazines demanding payment for use of their stories on Google and other search engines? Why are they not getting a significant slice of the advertising revenues generated by use of their stories via Google?

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Truly Free Film

Introducing Google Friend Connect

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Issues and Actions

The Google Book Supplement

Scott Macauley over at the Filmmaker Magazine Blog hipped us to this podcast.

Link to it here.
Host Jonathan Kirsch, an attorney specializing in intellectual property and publishing law, moderates a panel discussion on a landmark literary-legal settlement. It allows Google to scan and make available online many out-of-print but still-copyrighted books. The settlement portends a viable digital future for authors, publishers and libraries. Is there any downside?