Back in August, The Unofficial Google Weblog published the contents of Playboy's Google interview, which was included as Appendix B in Google's SEC paperwork. Playboy's lawyers contacted our ISP and asked us to take the interview down, so we did.
We originally posted the interview using the logic that the contents of SEC filings are public domain, therefore copying the interview from their site was legit. But if the Google people didn't have proper authorization to include the interview in their IPO filing, then we would just be repeating Google's own copyright violation. It makes sense that you can't just go around violating copyrights by always being the second one to do it…
1. "It makes sense that you can’t just go around violating copyrights by always being the second one to do it…"
Shoot, there goes the defense I was going to use against the RIAA.
Yeah, you would think Google's people would have checked into that.
Posted at 4:37AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jasper