a small change...

So, according to the wall street journal... the "markets declare truce in copyright wars." The market they are referring to is Google market which finally "conceded that information isn't free" and that the books they digitize (mainly those still under copyright but not in print) need some compensation. It's cool to think that book that we can not access anywhere else, we can access them online through Google. According to the article, "it was unclear what "fair use" meant to determine how much of a book Google could display before having to pay publishers and authors. The settlement agrees that 20% of a book can be previewed without payment. So while fair use is still undefined for other situations, this is an important precedent that benefits both consumers and content owners. It also, of course, benefits the Google colossus by letting it display for free significant excerpts of books it's already digitized." Once again the vagueness of the definition of fair use comes into play here. I don't know if this could be considered a truce, but definitely a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, it is a step by a company who has money. "The most fascinating truce in the copyright wars is this month's settlement of litigation between book publishers and authors on one side and Google on the other -- at $125 million, the biggest book deal ever. " Google has the funds to pay for this and it is fortunate for us the consumers who need to access these books but how can other companies continue to do this if they do not have the money? It is not feasible, thus can it really impact anything much further after this deal?