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As expected the University of California is partnering with Google on the Google library scanning project. Reuters reports that Google will be funding "the scanning of "several million" of the 34 million titles in the University of California's...
I wrote earlier this month of a French lawsuit becoming the third one I knew about filed against Google over its book scanning project. And the Court also rejected the WBG's argument that the scanning of its books in the U.S.infringed German...
Association of American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan and Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court (action by the Authors French publisher sues Google for piracy from AFP covers how a French publishing group...
Association of American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan and Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court (action by the Authors Google's shot across the Microsoft Excel bow with Google Spreadsheets; Google faces another...
Scanning Project Heads to Court (action by the Authors Guild) covers the two other suits that I know of, which we've blogged about before. French publisher sues Google for piracy from AFP and French book publisher sues Google from the BBC cover...
Building a Universal Library a huge undertaking, and not just because the physical effort of scanning tens of millions of books is in itself such a massive task. Fortunately, much of the new information created by humans is now in digital format...
The Library Scanning project: I think they're probably fine on the legal grounds of making an index of copyrighted works. Love, hate. When it comes to Google, I did the "hate" side of my love/hate relationship over in my
Google also has book content that comes from its library scanning program. Some opposed to the library scanning program will do it on purpose, just to continue muddying the waters. Google's Library Project Passes the One Year Mark.
Today's search podcast covers Google letting developers help others customize its home page; Yahoo Konfabulator being renamed Yahoo Widgets to reflect the software widgets it makes available; Google Accounts needing to be improved and...
More Publishing Trade Groups Weigh In On Changes to Google's Library Scanning Project Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court Google Print Now Publishing Out-Of-Copyright Works Gained Through Library Scanning Program
Google Catalogs is/was not only useful (save a tree kind of thing) but also a great demo of ocr scanning technology that I would think has some place in the Google Book Search/Google Library Project. I have a hunch (no official word whatsoever...
Google will continue scanning public domain books from the Library of Congress Law Library. Google said it's too early to tell if any of the scanning work it has already done will end up in the WDL. The United States Library of Congress has...
For the time being, Harvard has confined the scanning of its collections largely to books in the public domain and limited the initial scanning to about 40,000 volumes. Katie Hafner's NY Times article: At Harvard, A Man, a Plan, and a Scanner...
Can't wait for the court fights over Google Print's library scanning program? AAP can't make it due to a scheduling conflict, but they gave us plenty of other recommendations), plus a publisher that is pro and another that is con the scanning...
Yes, because Google is scanning both in and out of copyright works. MSN announced that it would digitize about 100,000 books through a partnership with the British Library. Microsoft and the British Library stressed that they will be choosing...
Google Library launched in December 2004, with the goal of taking books (both in and out of copyright) in public libraries and scanning them to make them searchable. It is difficult for anyone to understand the differences between the publisher...
Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google Print library scanning project. The move comes a couple of days after it was announced that Google was resuming its...
Google's Library Scanning Project Heads to Court (Authors Guild) It's November 1st, the day Google said they would resume scanning books of all types (including in-copyright materials) from the five libraries they're working with.
Every library that provides a copy of the book for scanning will also recieve a file for local use. The Internet Archive will handle all of the scanning for the entire project. According to Tiedt, Microsoft has currently committed to fund the...
The Washington-based advocacy group warned, however, that the project, which will resume scanning on November 1, 2005 poses dramatic threats to the principle of copyrights; fairness to authors; and cultural selectivity, exclusion, and censorship...
