Second Google Suit Over Print Library Project

linumax writes "The Association of American Publishers, an organization of book publishers including Pearson Plc's Penguin unit and McGraw-Hill sued Google over its plan to create a digital Web library of printed books. The Association of American Publishers sued Wednesday after talks broke down with Google over copyright issues raised by the Google Print Library Project. Publishers say Google will infringe copyrights unless it gets advance permission for the scanning. The suit is the second by the publishing industry against Google's library plans and underscores the worries sparked by Google's expansion beyond Web search." From the article: "Google, which is working with five of the world's great libraries (Stanford, Harvard and Michigan university libraries, the New York Public Library and the Bodleian library in Oxford) to digitise their collections, stopped scanning copyrighted books in August after protests from publishers. However, it intends to resume its work next month."

Comments

Google is going about this all wrong

[erroneus]

They need to appeal to some government body to get them to sanction this as a form of public library. Once that happens, they can pretty much do whatever they want... well at least a lot more than they are now. And what senator or congressman wouldn't want to be seen as the guy who took point in updating our library system to the modern age?

good

[Anonymous Coward]

Google is just Microsoft with a pretty logo.