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From: "Parker" <parker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Internet News" <inter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:07 PM
Subject: Internet and Technology News Google Begins Offering Index of Public
Domain Works
Thu Nov 3, 6:30 AM ET MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc.'s Internet-leading
search
engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and
government
documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material
can
be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.
The list of Google's so-called "public domain" works — volumes no longer
protected
by copyright — include Henry James novels, Civil War histories,
Congressional acts
and biographies of wealthy New Yorkers.
Google said the material, available at , represents the first large batch of
public
domain books and documents to be indexed in its search engine since the
Mountain
View-based company announced an ambitious library-scanning project late last
year.
The program is designed to make more library material available through a
few clicks
of a computer mouse and attract more people to click on the highly
profitable ads
that Google displays on its Web site.
During the next several years, Google wants to create digital versions of
millions
of books stacked in the New York Public Library and four university
libraries — Stanford,
Harvard, Michigan and Oxford.
Google declined to disclose how many books have been scanned from the
libraries so
far. The project is expected to require years to complete.
But a bitter copyright dispute is threatening to crimp Google's plans. The
Authors
Guild and five major publishers are suing to prevent Google from scanning
copyrighted
material in the libraries without explicit permission. Because it plans to
show only
snippets from copyrighted books, Google argues its scanning project
constitutes "fair
use" of the material.
Google postponed the scanning of copyrighted books in August to give writers
and
publishers more time to opt out of the program. The scanning of copyrighted
material
resumed this week, with an emphasis on books no longer in print.
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