"Most of the world's knowledge is contained in physical books. Google has joined with library partners to scan and index 10 million books, enabling a vast corpus of knowledge to be searchable. With court approval, the settlement will unlock that knowledge
Bakgrund: Le ministère de la Culture a annoncé jeudi 15 octobre la nomination de Marc Tessier [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Tessier] en tant que président de la commission sur la numérisation des fonds patrimoniaux des bibliothèques, suite au désist
Open Content Alliance (OCA). Democracy Now! broadcast an interview between Amy Goodman and Brewster Kahle about digitization, the Google Book Search Settlement, and the future of books and libraries taped on April 17 [2009] in San Francisco. - The class a
May 24, 2008. Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web, a sign that it is retrenching in some areas of Internet search in the face of competition from Google [..
Posted October 7, 2005. Open Content Alliance. Yahoo, European Union Announce Digital Library Projects "In the wake of Google’s plan to digitize books from libraries and provide access to their contents through its search engine, Yahoo has announced that
"As a matter of fact, right on page one of the Plaintiff's statement for the judge, among the bullet points describing the main achievements of the settlement, is this one: Limits library uses of digital copies of Rightsholders’ works. Perhaps it has been
Wikipedia: "According to the Settlement Agreement, the Registry will own and maintain a rights information database for all books (and parts of books) covered by the Agreement and their authors and publishers. It will also resolve disputes between rightsh
September 5th , 2009. "IFLA hopes that the proposed settlement under discussion in New York will serve as the beginning of a fruitful cooperation that will benefit the millions of users whom libraries serve throughout the world, bringing us closer to the
Huffington Post, October 13, 2009. Responding to Sergey Brin's OpEd in NYT, : " Unlike the Alexandria library or modern public libraries, the Google Book Search (GBS) initiative is a commercial venture that aims to monetize millions of out-of-print books,
Book-grab.com May 4, 2009 criticized the ALA: "Why did it take so long for the ALA to recognize that Google threatens the privacy protections that the ALA has always supported? After all, Google-Watch tried to raise this issue with the ALA in December 200
Disruptive Library Technology Jester We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore. Page with link to the Amicus Brief from the ALA