[Sca-librarians] Google scanning and posting items from major libraries?

[Johnna Holloway]

Actually they are going to go ahead and scan copyrighted material too--
Whether a book is in the public domain 
<http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Dec/gee20041215028262.htm#> or 
still protected under copyright law will determine
how much a user will see if the book is listed as a part of a search.
If a book is still under copyright, a user may only receive bibliographic
information as well as a small snippet of material from the book--
unless publishers approve the availability of more content. from geek.com

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-12-14-google-usat_x.htm
also talks about copyrighted material being scanned..

Johnnae


Mark Geldof wrote:

>My understanding of this project is that it will only
>cover public domain material held in the subject
>libraries so I don't think there will be any copyright
>issues. 
>
>I take it that most material is coming from the 19th
>century. Putting them out there in Google simply
>increases the accesability to material that is
>generaly out of print.
>
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>
> --- Johnna Holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
>wrote: 
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>>This may have made the front page of the NYT and the
>>Detroit papers,
>>but it wasn't page one news in the local Ann Arbor
>>papers.
>>Copyright for in-print material (like the
>>text-books) are what the
>>questions are going to come down about.
>>We do think it may kill off much of UMI/ProQuest if
>>it goes.
>>
>>I am waiting on all the official stuff to come home
>>from campus.
>>
>>Johnnae
>>
>>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
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