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10.19.05
Controversial
Google Print Scanning Europe
 By
David Utter
The search engine company has begun scanning books in eight European countries
and will digitize books in their local languages.
Books from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and
Switzerland will be fed to the Google Print project; these books will be made
searchable in their printed languages. Scanning efforts in the listed countries
have started.
Google Print started as a project to scan and digitize the contents of books from
five repositories: the New York Public Library, and university libraries from
Harvard, Michigan, Oxford, and Stanford.
Publishers have complained about the project, and Google has tried to address
those concerns. Citing fair use provisions in copyright law, Google believes it
has the right to scan these books. The company said it will not make entire books
available online, but enough content to provide relevant search results depending
on queries made.
That hasn't been enough to satisfy organizations like the Association of American
Publishers or the Authors Guild, which has sued Google over the project. However,
some European publishers and libraries have endorsed Google Print. and no one
has filed a suit in Europe yet.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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