This week in the New York Times, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wrote an op-ed about Google’s efforts in the realm of digitizing so-called orphan books. Despite ongoing legal drama, Brin insists that their efforts are for the good of everyone, and for all important texts that would otherwise be lost.
Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch writes in his piece covering the latest press meeting, “The main objection to the settlement is that it will give Google a monopoly on out-of-print, or orphan books.” Brin provides a retort to that argument in his op-ed : “The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns.” The unicorn defense!
