The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the second wave of supporters in Google’s bid to scan book collections of the world’s great libraries.
From the CNN report, “The drive to digitize major libraries was nearly derailed when authors’ and publishers’ groups sued Google last year to block scanning of copyrighted library books, arguing that — akin to Napster’s effect on the music industry — the effort might tempt consumers to stop buying printed works.
Google has countered it is creating the electronic equivalent of a library card catalog for copyrighted works and that the library project only plans to publish the full texts of out-of-copyright books in the public domain.”
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