Scholarly Publishers Take on Google

This is a never-ending fight: A group of non-profit scholarly publishers– The Association of American University Presses– is asking pointed questions about Google’s Google Print for Libraries and what the group considers the copyright-violation potential of this project to digitize some university library collection..

AAUP said that the 125 publishers-members are concerned about possible misuse of their copyrighted content. The letter, among other things, asks how Google intends to protect from misuse the copyrighted works it digitizes and indexes, and how publishers can protect their copyrighted work should a future Google owner decide to “exploit” these works directly.

Read/download the 6-page PDF letter here

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