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Prague Interview with Santiago de la Mora: Google Books in Europe
Statistics, scan quality, metadata, truncated public domain, copyright and everything you always wanted to know about Google Books, but were afraid to ask. This is my complete output from autumn Santiago de la Mora’s (Google Books project CEO for EMEA) visit in Prague. Enjoy it!
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Interview: Josh Cohen about Google News and right
Let me introduce you to Josh Cohen, real chief (product manager officially) of Google News. I asked him during his last visit in Prague for some details about Google News and rights (authors copyright, fairuse, text under licence) and of course monetization of this interesting but a bit controversial service.
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- Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: I they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow)
- Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow)
- You must ask two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control? (Thomas Pynchon)
- The true war is celebration of markets. (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow)
- "Darauf, daß man musiziert, Herr Haller, daß man so gut und so viel und so intensiv wie möglich musiziert! Das ist es, Monsieur." (Herman Hesse)