Google and the World Brain (2013)
The story of Google's most ambitious project ever and the people who tried to stop it.
The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions.
- Date of release
- 2013-01-18
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (31)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Ben Lewis
Casting
- Brendan Price — H.G. Wells
- Nicholas Chapman — Character Voices (voice)
- Molly Malcolm — Character Voices (voice)
- Joshua Zamrycki — Character Voices (voice)
- Sergey Brin — Himself
- Lawrence Lessig — Himself
- Angela Merkel — Self
Interesting facts
Google and the World Brain is a 2013 documentary movie about the Google Books Library Project directed by Ben Lewis, produced by BBC, Polar Star Films, and Arte. The main focus of the plot is on the copyright controversy caused by the project that resulted in the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement from Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. in 2013.
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