From A Press Release: In a letter to the chairmen of the
House and Senate Judiciary subcommittees overseeing intellectual property
issues, the nation’s oldest consumer advocacy group raised concerns about a
forthcoming ambitious effort to catalogue the entire collections of four major
American libraries. The letter, signed by National Consumers League President
Linda Golodner, acknowledges the tremendous potential value in Google Inc.’s
bold vision for the new initiative, in which the complete collection of works
at the university libraries of Stanford, Michigan, and Harvard, and of the New
York Public Library, would be scanned and made available electronically to the
public. The Washington-based advocacy group warned, however, that the project,
which will resume scanning on November 1, 2005 poses dramatic threats to the
principle of copyrights; fairness to authors; and cultural selectivity,
exclusion, and censorship.
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