Cortez writes “Why do I think these projects will keep a lot of lawyers busy for a lot of years? http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/110534.htm
“The plan for the Google Print Library envisioned that Internet users would be able to browse or print out the ‘entirety’ of books in the public domain, but books still under copyright could be accessed only in ‘snippets’. Should a copyrighted book still be in print, Google would tell users where they could buy it.
But publishing groups challenged Google’s position that the fair-use doctrine of copyright law allows for digitization of entire works.
“The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers calls on Google to cease unlicensed digitization of copyright materials with immediate effect, and to enter into urgent discussions with representatives of the publishing industry in order to arrive at an appropriate licensing solution…,â€? Sally Morris, chief executive of that association, said in a July statement.””
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