“ If they had a copyright lawyer among their founders, they never would have started the company. The basic business of a search engine is to copy everything. To make your copy, then search it. The first thing that happens, arguably, is infringement of copyright law. I say ‘arguably’ because there’s never been a case on it. From day one, Google went out and copied the whole Internet. Can you imagine a company starting in the film world and the first thing they did was make a copy of every film in existence? That company couldn’t have gotten started. The Web is all about copying, but copyright law is all about making copying illegal. There is an unavoidable disconnect between the two.
Columbia University law professor Tim Wu notes that without ‘copyright infringement’ of some sort, there is no Google… and there is no Internet.
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