Google’s back at it again, despite a couple of lawsuits and competing officially-sanctioned Open Content Alliance: it plans to resume scanning copyrighted books in the collections of Stanford University and the University of Michigan “soon.” It will focus on scanning copyrighted works that are out of print and is seeking publishers’ permission to digitize books that are still available new from bookstores, in what seems to be somewhat of a climbdown from its earlier position.
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