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Film: Google and the World Brain | |
Date | Tuesday March 24 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
909 12th Street, Sacramento | |
Event Type | Screening |
Organizer/Author | sacpeace |
sacpeace [at] dcn.org | |
Phone | 916-448-7157 |
Free film screening.
Discussion to follow. Google and the World Brain In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world's knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in its scope and possible influence" that it could transcend even nation states and governments. Seventy years later, Google set about realizing Wells's vision, launching a massive project to scan millions of books from university library collections. But when it was discovered that over half of the first ten million books Google scanned were still in copyright, authors from around the world joined together to wage a fierce legal battle against the Internet giant, culminating in a dramatic courtroom showdown in 2011. In gripping detail, Google & the World Brain tells the fascinating story of this complicated struggle over intellectual property and access to human knowledge, offering crucial insights into broader debates surrounding data-mining and privacy, downloading and copyright, fair use, freedom and surveillance.
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Added to the calendar on Monday Mar 9th, 2015 3:35 AM
http://www.sacpeace.org |
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