http://madisonian.net/2006/08/16/googles-fight-and-flight-response/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/08/16/googles-fight-and-flight-response/comment-page-1/#comment-69841 Kim Weatherall Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:56:17 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=742#comment-69841 The 'smart moves for big players' is one explanation, Frank - but isn't another issue here the fact that most countries in the world do not have fair use? The more international the business becomes, I would think the more this does become an issue. Google has been sued overseas; and it does, after all, have offshoots in many countries, such as Australia or the UK, which don't have fair use; Australia has, thanks to the FTA with the US, DMCA-like safe harbours but they're probably not enough). I don't know, but I'm just wondering whether that's a factor. Leads to an interesting unvirtuous circle, though, does it - licenses are necessary for the big businesses that have overseas interests, but the existence of a licensing norm then impacts within the US on the fair use analysis for the smaller businesses ... very interesting ... The ’smart moves for big players’ is one explanation, Frank – but isn’t another issue here the fact that most countries in the world do not have fair use? The more international the business becomes, I would think the more this does become an issue. Google has been sued overseas; and it does, after all, have offshoots in many countries, such as Australia or the UK, which don’t have fair use; Australia has, thanks to the FTA with the US, DMCA-like safe harbours but they’re probably not enough). I don’t know, but I’m just wondering whether that’s a factor. Leads to an interesting unvirtuous circle, though, does it – licenses are necessary for the big businesses that have overseas interests, but the existence of a licensing norm then impacts within the US on the fair use analysis for the smaller businesses … very interesting …

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