HardwareHeaven.com - Publishers Take Issue with Google Print

A group of academic publishers earlier this week sent a six-page letter to Google voicing their opposition to the search giant's plans to catalog books for its Web searches, and said that the project "appears to involve systematic copyright infringement on a massive scale."

Google Print for Libraries will allow users to search through books and periodicals that the company has added to its database. Upon its launch in December, the project had support from several academic libraries -- Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford -- who will allow the company access to digitize its book catalog.

But now some book publishers are getting cold feet and are worried that Google Print may end up hurting them financially. The group says it agreed to Google Print for Publishers, which allowed the publishers themselves to decide what books would be included in searches, and to opt out if they felt so inclined. However, Google is using Fair Use laws to gain rights to copy the university books for Google Print for Libraries, a move that publishers are not happy with.
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