Need your help re Google/Amazon! (Summary: Please sign & promote the petition at: http://new.petitiononline.com/cocoa/petition.html ) Hi all, the COCOA (Copyright Owners' Control of Access) Association could sure use your help. Summary: We're trying to get Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. to allow copyright owners to exercise their legal right to control what's shown via systems like Google Print & Amazon's Search Inside The Book. The COCOA Protocol is the means to do that. Copyright owners use it to say, "Show *this* part of my book(s)" -- be that 100%, 99%, 75%, on down to 0%. (Compare to the current choices of 100% or 0%, which leaves many books at 0%. See www.CopyrightAccess.com for full info.) The result will be not just legal access, but access to far more copyrighted material than now. Everyone wins. We need your help in moving these behemoth corporations: 1) Please SIGN THE PETITION at: http://new.petitiononline.com/cocoa/petition.html It's worded for brevity; the details are at the COCOA web site: http://www.CopyrightAccess.com 2) Please SPREAD THE WORD: Urge others to sign the petition, learn about COCOA, and likewise encourage others to sign the petition, spread the word, and urge yet others to.......... Please post on your blogs, tell journalists you know, put links on your web pages, etc. You may copy this description in full if you like. The COCOA Association is a non-profit organization established by representatives from a number of authors groups, publishers, and publishing industry experts. It serves as a central point for information on COCOA and distribution/authentication of COCOA records. COCOA was crafted by people ranging from "copyright conservative" to "copyright liberal," giving this consensus design widespread appeal. Thanks for your help! Please sign! Please spread the word! --Dr. Andrew Burt Chair, The COCOA Association