November 26th, 2008

Questions Raised About Google Library Project’s Impact On Knowledge Access

By William New, Intellectual Property Watch

What has been heralded as a breakthrough in the digitisation of human knowledge is also raising questions about how most humans will access that knowledge, according to an expert in copyright and the public interest.

Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently raised concerns about Google’s new settlement with publishers allowing the search engine to continue borrowing millions of books from libraries and scanning them to make a digital library.

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Related Cases: Authors Guild v. Google

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