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By Jon Newton 8/14/05 Google’s digital print for libraries caused six European leaders to moot a 'European digital library' to counter it, and also generated concern from 125 nonprofit “scholarly publishers” in the US who fear the project could end up in copyright infringement on a “massive scale”. Google is scanning library publications so one day they’ll be, “discoverable by the millions of people who search on Google," also making it even more attractive to advertisers. Its view is the objections amount to no more than a “healthy amount of discussion”. |
 Jon Newton |
Nonetheless, it’s now backing off. For the moment.
“We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order introduce their work to countless readers around the world,” says Google print product manager Adam Smith.
“But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders - both Google Print partners and non-partners - can tell us which books they’d prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.
“To allow plenty of time to review these new options, we won’t scan any in-copyright books from now until this November.”
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