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Google To Resume Scanning Books

Posted by Zonk on from the love-of-the-digital-printed-word dept.

SenseOfHumor writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google will resume scanning copyrighted books from Stanford and Univ of Michigan libraries. Let the battle resume!" From the article: "It isn't known just what percentage of library holdings fall into the category of being in copyright but out of print. About 18% of the books held by the libraries working with Google were printed prior to 1923 and are therefore in the public domain, according to an analysis by the Online Computer Library Center, a Dublin, Ohio, nonprofit library cooperative. An unknown percentage of the rest still are protected by copyright, depending on whether it was renewed. Google's resumption of its scanning of copyrighted works comes amid heated debate in the library community over participation in the program."

4 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. You forgot 4 by corngrower · · Score: 1, Funny

    4. Prophet

  2. Increase your Google Page Rank! by mOdQuArK! · · Score: 3, Funny

    You've got to wonder if there will be books published where the contents are designed to increase the book's Google Page Rank.

  3. Re:Out of print - fair game by Mechanik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody got a DVD of Dance of the Vampires they can let me copy then?

    Actually, since according to IMDB this movie is just the Fearless Vampire Hunters by another name, you are in luck as it was recently released to DVD

    Mechanik

  4. flouting, not flaunting says diction police of ALA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mr. Gorman, who said the American Library Association doesn't have an official position on the subject, described Google's argument that Web users will be able to look at several snippets and then decide whether they want to buy or read the book as "ridiculous." Further, he noted that as a published author, he opposes Google's intention to build an enormous database that includes copyrighted texts. "It's a flaunting of my intellectual property rights," he said.

    Shouldn't that be "flouting"?