The Google Book Scanning Project: Issues and Updates
Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Sep, 2009Educause Live presents: The Google Book Scanning Project: Issues and Updates. September 2, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT).
"For about five years, Google has been scanning and indexing millions of volumes drawn from academic libraries and other sources worldwide. The project has been greeted with high praise but also with lawsuits. In the latter category, a judge will shortly decide whether to approve a settlement reached last year by Google and several organizations representing authors and publishers. The issues swirling around the settlement include the treatment of absent rightsholders, user privacy, and competition. This session will offer a status report on the project and explore both sides of these questions"
Peter Scott's Library blog
Google's plan for world's biggest online library: philanthropy or act of piracy?
by William Skidelsky The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009
Google has already scanned 10 million books in its bid to digitise the contents of the world's major libraries, but a copyright battle now threatens the project, with Amazon and Microsoft joining authors and publishers opposed to the scheme...[More]