Web Search: New French and UK Lawsuits Against Google Digitization Efforts
Web Search: New French and UK Lawsuits Against Google Digitization Efforts
Danny at SEW offers a roundup of new lawsuits from France's La Martiniere and another group of UK publishers. What you might think of the Google plan is one thing, but we often wonder if some of these groups understand how it all works. We also think that it points out that Google's plans (the one to digitize library books as well as offer access to new books) is as much about selling books (that's what a Google exec implied) as it is about anything else. Don't forget this quote from Google's David Drummond from last November.
Mr. [Allan] Adler [a vice president for legal and governmental affairs at the Association of American Publishers] said Google's contention that its search program might somehow increase sales of books was speculation at best.
"When people make inquiries using Google's search engine and they come up with references to books, they are just as likely to come to this fine institution to look up those references as they are to buy them," he said, referring to the Public Library.
To which Google's Mr. Drummond [Google's general counsel] replied, "Horrors."
Postscript: In-copyright books shared with Google Book Search direct from publishers do not offer links to library holdings. Some library program books do offer info about local library holdings but others don't.
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