Google is in the running, to appease critics, to become world's biggest library in a legal move, including China, the US Justice Department, authors and publishers.
Google has the plan to distribute millions of books online. The agreement is designed to settle a 2005 class action lawsuit accusing the search engine of copyright infringement after it started scanning vast libraries of books.
There is a plan of google and his partners to give people access to thousands of books that are out of print or difficult to find. But there is a lot of discussion about the proposal in Europe and China. The new proposal will only cover books that were registered with the US Copyright office or books that are published in Britain, Australia or Canada. This means that 95% of non-US books will not be covered by the settlement, which will be binding only in America.
Last week, google had discussions with the Writer Union in China, but those discussions and any agreements will be separate to the American deal now in court. Google would begin discussions with European right holders as it seeks to broaden the scope of the project.
But there is an alternative, which would have been to withhold the support and have UK works excluded from the scope of the settlement and UK rightholders of control over how works are exploited. This new agreement adresses concerns about 'orphan works'. Orphan works are books whose right protecting the interests of the rightholders. Now, a deadline is expected to be set by a US Court for groups to object the modifications.
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I think it is a good initiative of google to put all the books online. But this isn't fair for the authors who whrite the books.Their salary is based on the selling of the books.
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