[Web4lib] Consumer Group Raises Concerns about Google Print Library

[Sloan, Bernie]

"In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary
subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues, the nation's
oldest consumer advocacy group...warned...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."

Press release:

http://nclnet.org/news/2005/printlibrary_10132005.htm 

Copies of letters to Congress:

http://nclnet.org/news/2005/NCL_Smith.pdf 
http://nclnet.org/news/2005/NCL_Hatch.pdf 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu