[Web4lib] Google Print pulls copyrighted materials

[Leslie Johnston]

If you go to print.google.com and search for "Henry James", at least 
half the hits are for copyrighted works that are labelled as support 
very limited viewing.  This is no different from yesterday or the day 
before that, or last week.

Leslie Johnston

At 03:43 PM 11/4/2005, Maurice York wrote:
>This guy seems a little off-the wall.
>
>"Google took a temporary retreat today in its plan to make available
>for free countless thousands of copyrighted books without the
>copyright holders' permissions."
>
>Google was never planning to make copyrighted books available for
>free. It has always been their intention to index them, not deliver
>their contents. This author apparently has some bone to pick with
>Google (or is a publisher's shil?), but either way he could be a
>little more balanced in how he's reporting this. I didn't notice
>anything that Google did yesterday that was a surprise or varied from
>what they have been saying for the last couple of months since the law
>suits came around.
>
>-Maurice
>
>On 11/4/05, Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> > Andrew Nagy wrote:
> > > It appears that today, Google changed their minds about copyrighted
> > > materials ...
> >
> > Cowards!
> >
> > Chuck
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Leslie Johnston
Head, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu