Google Doesn’t Wait for EU Governments
am 19.10.2005 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.comGoogle has launched its books scan engine Google Print in eight European countries (local-language sites): Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Google Print enables users to look for scanned books from libraries on the internet.Google presented the opening of its controversial digital library service at the yearly Frankfurt Book Fair.The move comes ahead of steps by the European commission and EU member states who also plan to set up their own European digital library, following strong pressure from France that fears Anglo-American cultural domination. The project …
Google Print : A Copyright Analysis
Law & Justice / In the last issue of the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, Jonathan Band has given insights on Google Print Library Project. He has described the difference between Print Publisher Program and Print Library Project. On August 11, 2005, Goo…
EU Information Societys High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries
Law & Justice / EurActiv writes today that the industry is better represented than the library sector among the members of DG Information Societys High Level Expert Group on digital libraries, which met for the first time on 27 March 2005 ( Read a press release publ…
European Alternative to Google Print
Law & Justice / EurActiv has a comprehensive file about a European-led alternative to Google Print. France takes the lead in its rival venture for a European Digital Library, an initiative within the framework of i2010 Digital Libraries of the European Commission.…
European Digital Library Needs Clarification of Copyright Issues
Law & Justice / The “European Digital Library”, a European-led alternative to Google Print, is an initiative within the framework of i2010 Digital Libraries of the European Commission.The European Commission published the results of a consultation on the digital…
Authors Hit Google With Copyright Lawsuit
Law & Justice / An organisation of more than 8000 authors accused Google of massive copyright infringement, claiming that Google cannot put its books in the public domain for commercial use without permission of the authors. Associated Press has more on the backgro…
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative...
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Lesson 1: Let me start with book publishing. More than 100,000 books are published each year, with several million books in print, yet fewer than 10,000 of those new books have any significant sales, and only a hundred thousand or so of all the book…
Microsoft Goes Google
Law & Justice / Microsoft announced that it will digitise about 100.000 books in collaboration with the British Library. Unlike Google Print, Microsoft says to limit itself to out-of-copyright books, thereby trying to avoid a legal minefield such as Google is conf…
European Google Killer Quaero?
Law & Justice / Bertelsmann, the German media company, announced that it is close to signing up as a partner behind the European search engine project Quaero. French president Jacques Chirac pledged to help fund a new European internet search engine to rival Google…
Google Book Search Adds Library Links
Handakte WebLAWg / Google yesterday announced that it has expanded coverage of its Google Book Search product. Now in addition to searching books that you can preview in whole or in part, you may also find books whose contents are not yet available online. For these bo…
Library of Congress Launches Effort to Create World Digital Library
Jurabilis / Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin announced today that Google is the first private-sector company to contribute to the Library’s initiative to develop a plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL)…
Aus Google Print wird Google Books
Die neue Mehrsprachigkeit / Der Dienst Google Print wurde in Google Books umbenannt, weil viele Internetsurfer denken, Google Print biete Druckersupport an. via intern.de…
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