After 7 Years In Court, Google Settles With Publishers On Book Scanning

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 4, 2012 @05:45AM from the you've-been-organized-as-part-fo-the-world's-data dept.

redletterdave writes "After seven long years of litigation, Google Inc. and the Association of American Publishers have reached an agreement to settle over the search giant's book-scanning project, which will allow publishers to choose whether or not they want their books, journals and publications digitized by Google and accessed via its Google Library Project. The agreement, according to the two companies, acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright holders, so U.S. publishers can choose to remove their books and journals digitized by Google for its Library Project, or choose to keep their publications available. For those that keep their works online with Google, those publishers will be able to keep a digital copy for their own use and sell their publications via the Google Play marketplace." Also reported by Reuters, as carried by the Chicago Tribune, and the BBC.

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Re:Intensely idiotic by s0nicfreak · 2012-10-04 06:18 · Score: 1, Flamebait

What gives copyright holders the right to hoard knowledge? If I borrow a book from the library and read it to my children, when they themselves did not borrow the book, is that not doing the same thing Google is doing?