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Publishers seek injunction against Google Print October 20,
2005
A number of
publishers represented by the trade union group Association of American
Publishers (AAP) filed an injuction in U.S. District Court in New York on
Wednesday to stop Google from moving forward with plans for its Print
Library Project. The current
situation between the publishing industry and Google requires that copyright
holders notify the search engine if they do not want works to appear on the
internet in full by November 1. Where requests
by copyright holders exist, the search result will display only a snippet of
the text and a link to where users can buy a hard copy. Google denies
it is violating U.S. copyright law. Negotiations
broke down when Google rejected a proposal by AAP to use ISBN. Parties to the
injunction want to implement a system where a listing of permissible works
and books is populated by the discretion of the publisher or author. By default, all
other copyrighted content would be excluded. Google offers
this explanation of how Google Print works: Just do a
search on the Google Print homepage. When we find a
book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it
in your search results. Click a book
title and you'll see the page of the book that has your search terms, along
with other information about the book and "Buy this Book" links to online
bookstores (you can view the entirety of public domain books or, for books
under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title's
bibliographic data and brief snippets). You can also
search for more information within that specific book and find nearby
libraries that have it. Plaintiffs
involved in the case are McGraw-Hill, Pearson PLC, Penguin Group, Simon &
Schuster, Inc. |
