Publishers concerned about Google's scanning project

[Sloan, Bernie]

>From today's online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education:

"Some publishing groups say that Google's ambitious project to scan
millions of library volumes and make them searchable could run afoul of
copyright laws, and that Google should get permission from publishers
before proceeding... some publishing-industry officials say that even
scanning a book and offering brief excerpts without the publishers'
permission could violate copyright because scanning the book would
represent a reproduction of the work, and the copying would have been
done by a commercial entity rather than the library that purchased the
book."

The full article is in the "Today's News" section for February 7
(unfortunately it's only available online to subscribers):

Young, Jeffrey R. Publishing Groups Say Google's Library-Scanning Effort
May Violate Copyright Laws. (Today's News). Chronicle of Higher
Education (online version). February 7, 2005.

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

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