By Lorenzo Ravagli
The American law professor Pamela Samuelson warns that Google is about to gain a monopoly of the consciousness industry, if it succeeds the Internet company to digitize the world's knowledge. The "Association of German Book Trade," speaks of Google to step forward, the global knowledge and cultural administration to take over.
What is it? Google, one of the largest providers of Internet services in the world, has grown as a search engine digitized, at present all books that have ever appeared to them to offer Internet users. Authors who can not agree to this digitization, to 5 May lodge an appeal. For a modest fee to the author claims to be settled. The project of a global digital library amounts to a universal expropriation. It is an attack on the individuality of the author, as the author of his works has the right, about the when, where and how the publication his works have to. About 1500 well-known publishers, authors and Wssenschaftler have reported in "Heidelberg Appeal" to speak in order to prevent the threat of Google by undermining the basic rights of poets, artists and scientists.
In Google's project reveals the dialectic of network-based information technology. In the view of his progressive supporters is the global network as a vehicle for the propagation of freedom, as it democratized access to knowledge and information. At each location, at any time, without any particular hurdles is to allow anyone to gain access to all relevant information for his actions as a literate subject required. It will also allow anyone to enter without special obstacles the trail of his own individuality in the global knowledge space. These same "open access" ideology now proves their double face: by the authors of the knowledge that all will be made available, expropriated, it undermines not only their own conditions but also the individuality of the author. The worldwide network that is already in the metaphor that describes it makes, its nature indicated - it's a web of nodes, which allows no distinction anymore, it swallows the idea after everything in it, - now accesses to the individual, their intellectual autonomy it threatens plattzuwalzen. That the network is individualitätsfeindlich was attentive observers has long been clear. Not least, this shows the fragmentation of knowledge, the specific structure of information presentation, the soganennten hyperlinks in any variability of the presented content, beyond which the memory of the ground and in the creation of fictitious identities to be undermined in the protection of any legal right can. The understanding, which defend the achievements of the Enlightenment must set themselves against the piracy of the network to defend the destroyed all authorship. You need to succeed against the totalitarian propaganda to defend in the name of freedom all freedom and eroding individual rights. What has succeeded in the case of child pornography in tentative approaches must be extended to other areas worthy of protection. The Internet is not a legal vacuum, it must be well regulated, such as globalization and the financial sector. Global demand globally networked systems design by outreaching the people who produce it, not just at the same time they are exposed.
Supports the Heidelberg Appeal: "For freedom of publication and the protection of copyright"
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