[Web4lib] Publishers' Group Asks Google to Stop Scanning Copyrighted Works for 6 Months

[Sloan, Bernie]

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

"The Association of American Publishers has asked Google to stop
scanning copyrighted books published by the association's members for at
least six months while the company answers questions about whether its
plan to scan millions of volumes in five major research libraries
complies with copyright law."

Article available at (no subscription required):

http://chronicle.com/free/2005/06/2005062101t.htm 

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