Google Watch

Those wacky Google Dolls are at it again. The company has this really cool idea to scan books from five of the largest libraries in the world. Then people could search the book lines online. Cool, right? Except there’s a wee little problem. It’s called copyright law.

Publishers are majorly ticked, and Google seems to be genuinely puzzled by this. So Google tried to reach a compromise. At 11:53 p.m. on Thursday night, Google said on their blog that they won’t scan any book that publishers request. So the burden of protecting a copyright lies with the owner! Now, publishers are even angrier. Business Week has the 411.

Posted by on August 15th, 2005 at 10:09 am


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