[access-uk] Google pauses online books plan
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:07:19 +0100
This looks like important news for those who support 'the right to read'
campaign. More applicable to those in higher education than mainstream
fiction, the interesting thing to me is the bit about prevention of
infringement of copyright being shifted to the owner rather than the reader.
Part of the story from BBC News.
Google pauses online books plan
Google has put the brakes on its programme to digitise the books in several
major university libraries.
In its blog, the search giant said it would temporarily stop scanning
copyrighted texts until November to allay concerns about the plan.
The company's library project aims to put millions of volumes online and
accessible everywhere via the web.
"Google's procedure shifts the responsibility for preventing infringement to
the copyright owner rather than the user, turning every principle of copyright
law on its ear," she added.
(More at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4146488.stm
Ray
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