Google print -- not ready for prime time

[mdlbear]

Google Print is finally online. There are some serious problems, and I'm not talking about the moronic legal threat from the publishers. First thing I did was to search for a poem ("The Stolen Child", by Yeats) that I know damned well is public domain -- it was first published in 1899. Back come a bunch of links to images -- not even text -- of the poem as typeset in books published between 1990 and 2002, watermarked "Copyrighted" (or something like that -- the server's down at the moment). An advanced search limiting the dates to 1800-1930 turns up nothing whatever.

Just typesetting the damned poem doesn't give you a copyright, you blithering greedy bastards! I'll wait for things to settle out, and meanwhile head back to the 16,000 public domain books at gutenberg.org.