Google blijkt al twee maanden een Google Public Policy Blog online te hebben, alleen is het nu pas publiek toegankelijk.
De blog bespreekt de Google visie en policy op allerlei onderwerpen, zoals netwerk-neutraliteit (met reactie op Ars Technica) en privacy.
De voor mij interessantste is auteursrecht. Google krijgt tenslotte veel kritiek over hun aanpak van “wij indexeren alles tenzij u zegt dat u het niet wilt”. Google legt nu uit waarom zij het zo doen:
Of course, some people argue that we should be asking content owners to opt in, not requiring them to opt out. Google aims to provide comprehensive search results. This would be impossible in a world where permission simply to index (which is entirely legal) was necessary. But we also believe that opt-out rather than opt-in benefits not just Google users, but also content owners. If content isn’t indexed it can’t be searched. And if it can’t be searched, how can it be found? Imagine a library with no index of titles or subjects of the books on its shelves, or no catalogue of the authors who wrote them.
Doel van de blog is duidelijk lobby’en:
We hope this blog will serve as a resource for policymakers around the world — including legislators, ministers, governors, city councilmembers, regulators, and the staffers who support them — who are trying to enact sound government policies to foster free expression, promote economic growth, expand access to information, enable innovation, and protect consumers. We also hope (cliché alert) that this blog will promote real conversation, so we’ve enabled comments.
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Arnoud