We want to see these books have the broadest reach possible -- the books we scan are available for inclusion in Europeana, of which the Florence Library is a founding member, and other digital libraries.
The Library Scanning project: I think they're probably fine on the legal grounds of making an index of copyrighted works. Justice: Sure, there's plenty of self-interest in Google going up against the DOJ in the case involving query logs.
The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some legal obstacles in Europe.
Katie Hafner's NY Times article: At Harvard, A Man, a Plan, and a Scanner offers a profile of Sidney Verba, Director of the University Library at Harvard that focuses on Harvard's partnership with Google (in this case, a "pilot project") to scan...
One thing I hope MSN does (that Google is already doing and doing well) is working with libraries (of all types), who are already paying (via institutional subscriptions) for access to massive amounts of articles, etc.and then make them available...
Legal Experts Say Google Library Digitization Project Likely OK; Will It Revolve Google's library scanning program makes things searchable in Google Print but reprinted. Instead, you have to go someplace and buy it or find it in a library.
In the SearchDay article about Google Library last December, we pointed out that Brewster Kahle and The Internet Archive have plans to digitize the full text of over one million books and make them freely accessible and searchable on the web.
Many predicted that the copyright issues that surround Google's library book scanning project would end up in court. United States, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against Google over the Google Library book scanning project which...
One lawyers in the article makes exactly this argument in the latter part of the story, dealing with past case law that will likely be applied. Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying from InternetWeek has legal experts saying that copyright...
So you're right, in principle Google should seek opt-in permission before indexing freely available web pages, too (as, indeed, the British Library's web archiving project has very properly done - and very hard work it is too).
Shortly after Google announced some changes to their library scanning project, the Association of Amercican Publishers said they weren't pleased (see: Google Gives Publishers Opt-Out From Library Scanning Project; One Group Still Not Happy).
Google's claim that it is fair use to make copies of every copyrighted work in even one major library, let alone three of them, is completely unprecedented in scale; it is tantamount to saying that Google can make copies of every copyrighted work...
In our article about Google's library digitization project last week and this SEW Blog post, we noted another large library digitization project from the Internet Archive. Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie...
The short answer is that today's crawler-based search engines let you scan every page on every book in the library to find the best and most exact references to what you are looking for. Also features information about link analysis from the Clever...
The mechanics of a universal library are simple. Europes best online music library goes nationwide. Wired takes a look at the successes and failures of Project Gutenberg. In essence, Judge Miles-LaGrange adopted Google's overall view of the case.
Associations on the Net http://www.ipl.org/ref/AON/ A service of the Internet Public Library. The Scholarly Societies Project http://www.scholarly-societies.org/ A directory of over 3,100 scholarly organizations from around the World.
According to the American Library Association, the Department of Energy has removed 9,000 scientific research papers that contain keywords such as "nuclear" or "chemical" and "storage" from national laboratory web sites and is reviewing them to...
After this article was written, librarian Larry Gaynor of the Fort Worth Public Library wrote in to explain that while an "answer" was found, it wasn't necessarily accurate. I used some of your search tips, and, using Google, narrowed the search...
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