[Web4lib] Google stops scanning copyrighted books

[Ryan Eby]

If you haven't already read it, Corante has been having some decent
roundups of the debate among legal folks. A new twist is whether or
not Google Print should be considered a for-profit Library or even a
library partnership. There is also discussion on whether them backing
off will end up hurting library digitization efforts in the future.
Here are the most recent entries, I recommend looking through the
archives as well:

http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/15/google_print_is_as_google_print_does.php

http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/08/15/google_print_library_shoulda_coulda_woulda.php

Ryan Eby

On 8/15/05, Dale Askey <daskey at ksu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Nor would, I suspect, any of Google's major shareholders. This
> persistence in some quarters on seeing Google as some sort of corporate
> benevolence society never fails to amaze me. Given their market
> valuation, they had better extract value from their now
> partially-suspended digitizing activities or we'll be able to add Google
> to the list of Internet giants that stumbled and fell. They can't just
> pour money into a venture for the good of the world without finding a
> way to make a buck in the process.
> 
> Dale
>