Comments on: Copyright and D.C. lobbying: that was fast http://overlawyered.com/2012/11/copyright-d-c-lobbying-fast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=copyright-d-c-lobbying-fast Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Hugo S. Cunningham http://overlawyered.com/2012/11/copyright-d-c-lobbying-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-184739 Hugo S. Cunningham Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:43:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=34225#comment-184739 Congress should pass an "Internet free library national policy act," establishing the eventual objective that anyone with a computer link anywhere in the country should have the same access to information as a physical visitor to the Library of Congress. As an initial step in line with that policy, Congress could rule that a bona-fide search data-base (eg. Google's) is not a copyright infringement. Over the longer term, Congress might authorize a friendly expropriation of Google's scanning library, to deploy the negotiating power of the US government against excessive demands by copyright trolls. Congress should pass an “Internet free library national policy act,” establishing the eventual objective that anyone with a computer link anywhere in the country should have the same access to information as a physical visitor to the Library of Congress.

As an initial step in line with that policy, Congress could rule that a bona-fide search data-base (eg. Google’s) is not a copyright infringement.

Over the longer term, Congress might authorize a friendly expropriation of Google’s scanning library, to deploy the negotiating power of the US government against excessive demands by copyright trolls.

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