AAP asks Google to suspend its plan to digitize booksJune 29, 2005 The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has asked Google to suspend for six months its plan to digitize books from the collections of several major research libraries, thus making them searchable online. AAP Vice President for Legal and Governmental Affairs Allan R. Adler told the Chronicle of Higher Education that the group made the request in a June 10 letter that stopped short of calling for the project to “cease and desist.” “We’ve simply asked for a six-month moratorium to facilitate discussion,” said Adler. Adler said in the June 21 Chronicle that the letter was prompted by AAP members’ concern that they have not “gotten satisfactory answers to their questions about copyright infringement.” It requested a meeting between Google executives and leaders of the publishing association. Susan Wojcicki, director of product management for Google Print, told the Chronicle, “We have received the letter, and we have read it, and we are in discussions with publishers, authors, and the associate organizations to understand their concerns—to listen to them as well as talk about the benefits of Google Print.”  The AAP letter follows one sent to Google May 20 by the Association of American University Presses questioning the legality of the Google Print for Libraries project, indicating that it “appears to involve systematic infringement of copyright on a massive scale.” The Google project has also raised privacy issues: The CNet online news service reported June 17 that Google’s contract with the University of Michigan, released June 17 by the privacy-interest group Google Watch, contains no provisions to protect the privacy of people who will use the service to search the school’s library over the internet. “I would have hoped that the University of Michigan would be sensitive to the fact that Google tracks everything that everyone searches,” said Google Watch founder Daniel Brandt. The contract also specifies that Google will make two digital copies of all books—one for Google, the other for the university—sparking publishers’ concerns that Google plans commercial use for the material, some of which is still under copyright protection. “In some ways, that contract illustrates exactly why publishers are concerned,” the AAP’s Adler said in the June 22 Business Week Online. Source: American Librairies Online  Read Serge Thibodeau's daily blogs on search engines at Serge Thibodeau Live. We strongly suggest you bookmark our web site by clicking here.  Tired of receiving unwanted spam in your in box? Get SpamArrest™ and put a stop to all that SPAM. Click here and get rid of SPAM forever! Get your business or company listed in the Global Business Listing directory and increase your business. It takes less then 24 hours to get a premium listing in the most powerful business search engine there is. Click here to find out all about it. Rank for $ales strongly recommends the use of WordTracker to effectively identify all your right industry keywords. Accurate identification of the right keywords and key phrases used in your industry is the first basic step in any serious search engine optimization program. Click here to start your keyword and key phrase research.
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