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Information Technology News Google hits rivals and publishers with book scan subpoenas
Information Technology News Google hits rivals and publishers with book scan subpoenas | Google hits rivals and publishers with book scan subpoenas |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Saturday, 07 October 2006 | |
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However, Amazon and others have obtained permission from publishers and authors before allowing access to selected sections of books and most of the books on the site do not have such access. Yahoo and Microsoft support a project called the Open Content Alliance, a project which will users to browse contents of copyrighted works for which permission has been granted by authors and publishers, while major publishers have also launched their own online browsing projects. The Google project, however, is the most far reaching and intends, with the aid of major US libraries, to encompass all published works, including those still in copyright. Google intends to find out through its subpoenas exactly what criteria the rival scanning projects intend to use judge what constitutes fair use, as well as financial details of how book sales would be affected and digital rights management features. For Google, whose stated aim is to organize the world's information, being able to index the contents of the world's libraries is its most ambitious project to date and a test to what extent it can push the boundaries separating freedom of information and copyright controls on published works.{moscomment}
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