Google Books Just The Latest IP Fight

“It’s tempting – Google certainly encourages this – to see the age of MicrAmazoogle as revolutionary, a thrilling new era in which the civilised world can airbrush the imperfections of the past and march into a new dawn.” But “from print culture’s beginnings to the rise of the internet, there has been a succession of intellectual property wars for which the English language has just one word: piracy.”