Google Print Library Project to Violate Copyrights : Publishers Protest

Google Print makes offline information available online. As part of this project, they are working to digitize the book collections of several major research libraries and make this content searchable through Google Print alongside books provided by publishers through our Publisher Program.

Yahoo News reports “A group of academic publishers is challenging Google Inc.’s plan to scan millions of library books into its Internet search engine index, highlighting fears that the ambitious project will violate copyrights and stifle future sales.”

“the Association of American University Presses described the online search engine’s library project as a troubling financial threat to its membership — 125 nonprofit publishers of academic journals and scholarly books.”

“The association of nonprofit publishers is upset because Google has indicated it will scan copyright-protected books from three university libraries — Harvard, Michigan and Stanford.”

“Google also is scanning books stored in the New York Public Library and Oxford in England, but those two libraries so far are only providing Google with “public domain” works — material no longer protected by copyrights.”