The Library Scanning project: I think they're probably fine on the legal grounds of making an index of copyrighted works. Picasa: OK, I opt for the fee-based When it comes to Google, I did the "hate" side of my love/hate relationship over in my
Google's library scanning program makes things searchable in Google Print but reprinted. Google is scanning books into an index, just as it spiders web pages and adds them to its index. AutoLink and are suddenly scanning your pages to find how...
Gives Publishers Opt-Out From Library Scanning Project; One Group Still Not 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...
Yes, they scan all the book but they show little without explicit permission (for more, see our past Another Google Book Scanning Debate If copyright law worked the way Google would like to see it working, then everyone in the world would be able...
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).
To be clear, Google will continue scanning public domain materials. The biggest change is that Google will allow publishers who are members of the Google Print program to explicity tell Google what library books they want digitized.
University-Press Group Raises Questions About Google's Library-Scanning Project. You can also do this with the OPT operator, to indicate which specific words are "optional". It also offers truncation, and this isn't just the word stemming that many...
There was also the help of some high school students drafted in to complete some of the scanning. And has Google violated copyright by scanning all these catalogs -- some of which there is a charge for -- without permission?
