usa google books denouncing massive book scanning
The Web giant will not stop at its massive scanning project books. The announcement, after a New York court rejected the possibility of an agreement with authors and publishers to publish their titles on the web. Figures from the Google Books project
Google ignores the legal obstacles that the U.S. imposed on the Google Books project.
On Tuesday, a New York court said it rejected the attempt by the company to establish a financial settlement with authors and publishers to publish their books online.
However, Silicon Valley hinted that they will not stop at the massive task of scanning titles, to form the largest digital library in the world.
"Whatever the outcome will continue to work with Google Books to make more books available online," said Hillary Ware, chief executive of Google. And ruled that "would not make any further comment."
James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School reported that, after the negative, Google will introduce three options: attempt to appeal to a higher court judge, forgetting the agreement and resume the dispute with authors and publishers or re- draft agreement to the terms proposed by the judge.
The parties re-grouting the 25th of April, according to the newspaper El Pais.
Meanwhile, Google will continue to allocate resources to the project effort and Books, so far recorded the following figures:
20% the amount of funds subject to copyright within the Google catalog;
Works 12 million so far digitized Google;
100 different languages covering Google with its catalog;
600 publishers at least those who authorized CEDRO-entity that manages the reproduction rights, to negotiate on their behalf with Google. Represent 80% of the market
More than 30 libraries that already digitized its funds into the project.
Source: http://www.infobae.com/notas/571567-Google-Books-va-a-seguir-escaneando-libros-pese-a-las-trabas-judiciales.html
