Google Notebook’s Totally Disingenuous Copyright Policy

Official Google Blog: Note this

The copyright policy described here:

Information about publishing content

When using Google Notebook, please remember to respect the hard work (and rights) of the people that created the content. Publishing a notebook is the same as creating your own webpage — don’t include content in your notebook that you couldn’t legally publish on your own webpage.

Is completely disingenuous. The whole point of the Notebook application is to grab other people’s copyrighted web pages and put them in the Google Notebook, where they can be made searchable with a single click.

Google has considerately deactivated Google Notebook on Google Book Search pages like this one (my Harry Potter book): no context menu drop-down is available.

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