Google Print Upsets Children's Hospital
News The hospital, which receives all the royalties from sales and performances of Peter Pan in the UK, fears that it could suffer a drop in revenue if Google includes the children's classic in its plan to scan, digitise and make searchable the world's...
[November 4, 2005, 16:30]
Google Print Faces Further Delays
News The company is embroiled in lawsuits over its plans to scan, digitise and make searchable public domain and copyright protected books from the university collections of Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and the New York Public Library.
[November 4, 2005, 8:40]
Google To Unlock Libraries
News Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Oxford, Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, to digitise out-of-print and copyrighted works. Stanford and the University of Michigan have given Google the go-ahead to...
[December 14, 2004, 8:50]
Publishers Lay Into Google Print
News Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitise and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticizing the plan, calling it a "broad-sweeping violation of the [American] Copyright Act.
[May 25, 2005, 9:40]
Google Resumes Book Scanning
News According to The Wall Street Journal, Google will be trying to get publishers' permission to digitise books that are still on sale in bookshops. The company says it will resume scanning books but will focus on out-of-print titles and wants to get...
[November 1, 2005, 10:55]
Google Reveals Its 300-year Plan
News Schmidt also responded to a question about complaints Google has endured, including a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild over its plan to digitise books and make them searchable online. Despite the slowdown in print advertising, Google is testing a...
[October 10, 2005, 9:15]
Amazon Ups The Ante For Digitisation
News The search company wants to digitise and make searchable online texts from the university library collections at Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Oxford and the New They get to decide whether they want to participate in these programs or not and we...
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
Microsoft Partners With British Library
News Microsoft has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 100,000 of its books. and the Internet Archive, which Microsoft has recently become involved in, as well as Google's on-off Google Print scheme.
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
Google Clashes With UK Publishers Over Digital Libraries
News Google has again clashed with publishers over its controversial programme to scan, digitise and make searchable the collections of libraries in the US and the UK. The Google Book Search project, previously called Google Print, was launched in 2004.
[June 6, 2006, 13:45]
Google Faces Massive Copyright Suit
News As part of its Google Print Library Project, the company is working to scan all or parts of the book collections of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library and Oxford University.
[September 21, 2005, 8:55]
Google Offers Free PDFs Of Books
News Partners in Google's project to digitise library books in the US and the UK include the University of California, Harvard University, University of Michigan, The New York Public Library, Oxford University and Stanford University.
[August 31, 2006, 9:55]
