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August 12, 2005
Google Library project halts on copyright
Google is temporarily stopping its programme to digitise the books in several major university libraries and make them accessible via the internet.
The company will stop scanning copyrighted texts until November, due to concerns from several groups about violations of copyright. The pause is to allow publishers to identify which books should not be included in the scanning programme.
Google is investing $200m to create a digital archive of millions of books from the libraries of Stanford, Michigan and Harvard universities, and of the New York Public Library - by 2015. It is also digitising books that are out-of-copyright, from Oxford University in the UK. The aim is to make the text of the world's books searchable by anyone in the world, especially out of print and obscure texts.
Despite the pause, the trade body of the US publishing industry, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), expressed concerns about the project.
AAP president Patricia Schroeder said in a statement: "Google's procedure shifts the responsibility for preventing infringement to the copyright owner rather than the user, turning every principle of copyright law on its ear".
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