Google clashes with UK publishers over digital libraries

ZDNet Reports Google has again clashed with publishers over its controversial programme to scan, digitise and make searchable the collections of libraries in the US and the UK.

Publishers hit out at Google over the plan, and the effect it will have on copyright, at Monday’s launch of the All Party Internet Group report on digital rights management.

“There is the serious issue of the digitisation of massive library collections where the majority of works are in copyright. Google digitises entire books, not just indexing but displaying the entire work,” said Hugh Jones, copyright counsel for the Publishers Association.