SAN FRANCISCO--When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google. Or so it seemed at a party held by the Internet Archive on ...

Scanning and digitizing one book costs $60. Scanning and digitizing the University’s 7.7 million printed works would cost $462 million. A price as steep as that makes it easy to understand why the ...

German publisher WBG has dropped its legal challenge to Google's Books Library Project, according to the Internet search giant. "It's our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Google’s plan to digitize every bound book in some of the nation’s largest libraries and make them ...

A US judge ruled last month that the libraries that provided content for Google’s massive book scanning project were covered by fair use exemptions to copyright law. But what does that mean for the ...

Google’s controversial Book Search project is back in the spotlight after the search engine company asked a judge to dismiss a class action suit brought by authors last week. Scott Cleland, a former ...

CAP Action Senior Fellow David Balto testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on competitive concerns raised by the Google Books Project. A Chinese Google user presents flowers in front of ...

The president of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, said in a speech to scholarly-book publishers on Monday that her institution’s participation in the controversial Google Library Project ...

The class action lawsuit against Google was filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York, and seeks to protect the owners of visual works copyrights from the "massive and organized ...

The president of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, said in a speech to publishers of scholarly books last week that her institution’s participation in the controversial Google Library ...

A coalition of firms that oppose a settlement reached last year between Google and some representatives of the publishing industry over its Google Books project is growing. New members now reportedly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...