You may want to contact this artist, researcher and former contract worker for Google, Andrew Norman Wilson, who filmed and inadvertently discovered a class of workers, the Yellow Badges, who do nothing but scan books for Google Books, but are a VERY secret group of workers who worked odd hours, 4 am to 2:15 pm, and seemed to have even fewer if any of the privileges of the other contract workers and were mostly people of color. He got permission to film but not from a person high enough up, firestorm after Google and his contract company found out, he was fired.
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More re Google Books:
One commentator on this video points out that during the eight-year legal battle over Google scanning and making public other authors' copyrighted works (see ruling in my other post here), this video above may have captured illegal book scanning while lawsuit was in progress!
goldb4 years ago
Hi Andrew.
Thank you for posting your video. As you probably know Google was involved in an 8 year legal battle over the scanning of library books. Maybe they were not allowed to continue scanning while the case was being decided? You may have captured proof of illegal activity. Have you investigated this aspect of your firing???
democracynow.org/blog/2009/9/30/scanning_the_horizon_of_books_and_libraries
and
democracynow.org/2009/4/30/google_faces_antitrust_investigation_for_agreement
Please check this out: democracynow.org/2011/8/24/pioneering_internet_archivists_brewster_kahle_and
:) Goldbean