"Terms of Infringement," my review of Adrian Johns's new history Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
In the opening paragraph of my review, I refer to an essay by Immanuel Kant. Its title is "Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books," and in Google Books, you can see a Google technician's hand obscuring the text of it at the bottom of page 234. Above: My scan of a print-out, corrected by me in green ink, of Kant's essay as scanned by Google, along the scanning technician's hand.
What I find I want to link to is your amended image. Do you have a bigger version online somewhere?
Posted by: Bill Tozier | Thursday, 04 February 2010 at 03:39 AM
Not really, alas. I scanned just that part of the page, and though I made a few attempts, none of them were at a larger size or higher resolution. Sorry! Here's a URL to the image itself: http://bit.ly/cg9Ji5
And here's the original scan, sideways and without color correction (the ink was green in real life):
http://steamthing.typepad.com/hand-of-google.jpeg
You're welcome to copy both and use elsewhere, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: Caleb Crain | Thursday, 04 February 2010 at 04:31 AM