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Publishers complain About Google's book digitizing project

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Wed, 05/25/2005 - 16:54 — Christoph C. Cemper

Google's plan to digitise thousands of out-of-copywright text books came under fire yesterday from a group of leading US publishers.

The AAUP made up by 125 academic publishers complained and ask Google a series of questions regarding its claim to fair use in making library books available online.

via [The Register]

For me it's quire obvious that this digitising project won't only be fair-use of copyrighted material, but a HUGE search database enhancement for google, thereby driving even more traffic and searchers to google and with that multiplying their sales… I am no US copyright pro, but I guess Google should donate at least a bit of it's earnings to those libraries…

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