Posted by lispybanana 5 days ago
The books project predates the search engine and the search engine grew out of the project of creating a universal digital library. The PageRank algorithm is one of a class of algorithms used to score citations in books and papers.
Until it too was emasculated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust>
Otherwise, we have Project Gutenberg (public domain), OpenLibrary (Internet Archive, both PD and copyrighted works), ZLibrary, Library Genesis, and Anna's Archive.
But if you're offering me even a fraction of Google's budget, I think I might manage to scale things up.
Anyone knows more about it?
Greeted with a paywall on the source. Hypocracy...
> “History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests,” Wu writes.
It is completely braindead to argue that market forces had anything to do with compulsory licensing. It is a matter determined by courts in the public interest.