{"id":192,"date":"2011-04-14T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=192"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:57:31","slug":"google-should-be-the-webs-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2011\/04\/14\/google-should-be-the-webs-policeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Google should be the web&#8217;s policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I came up with a way that Google could get on the right side of the copyright issue. See <a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2009\/12\/15\/how-google-can-be-the-good-guy-for-publishers\/\">How google can be the good guy for publishers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At the time I had regular calls with some Google Adwords reps, and when I shared my idea they told me &#8220;Google doesn&#8217;t want to be the web&#8217;s policeman.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It was obvious that my suggestion was butting up against some internal Google mantra. <\/p>\n<p>But the real world has a way of messing with mantras. Now Google has become the copyright cop on Youtube. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0411\/53178.html\">Google to sentence YouTube violators to &#8216;copyright school&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s goal is to organize all the world&#8217;s information. You can&#8217;t do that without taking copyright into account. <\/p>\n<p>Google is successful because of <i>other people&#8217;s content.<\/i> They have a moral obligation to use that content properly, and in the context of their operations, that does mean becoming the web&#8217;s policeman, at least to some extent, and at least as far as copyright violation is concerned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I came up with a way that Google could get on the right side of the copyright issue. See How google can be the good guy for publishers. At the time I had regular calls with some Google Adwords reps, and when I shared my idea they told me &#8220;Google doesn&#8217;t want &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2011\/04\/14\/google-should-be-the-webs-policeman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Google should be the web&#8217;s policeman&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}