And We Quote...
in cra-briefings38 · September 15, 2006
Search opens up creations. It promotes the civic nature of publishing. Having searchable works is good for culture. It is good in fact, that we can now state a new covenant: Copyrights must be counterbalanced with Copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work’s copies (what we call copyright) a creator has an obligation to allow a work to be searched. No search, no copyright. As a song, movie, novel or poem is searched, the potential connections it radiates seep into society in a much deeper way than the simple publication of a duplicated copy ever could.
— Kevin Kelly, writing in “Scan this Book”,
New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006