Google-Publishers: Library Project settlement

( Source: www.newyorker.com/2013)

The case is brought by American publishers who are concerned of their publishing piracy issue.

After seven years the association brought the case to the court, Google finally agreed to proceed to reach library project settlement with the publishers.

Google Books and scholar are well-known to us as searching tools if we are looking for a books, citation or reference online. Because of that free usage people is tend to read the books online rather than buying it at the bookstores. Thus, the project has begun by working with seven major universities to digitize their libraries. Once the books are scanned, excerpts can be read in search results.

The problem occurred when several major publishers went to the courts, complaining of copyright infringement. The publishers were worried that the Google Library Project would undermine their business models, with users choosing to read large samples of the books online rather than to buy them, especially to students that required them to do mass-research if all of it were free then publisher will lose business on that segments.  

According to (Denning et. al., 1996), other forms of computer criminality include the propagation of copyright infringement through software piracy, Internet fraud and marketing scams, identity theft, the creation and transmission of child pornography, and the compromise of network security by hackers. 

Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, said: "By putting this litigation with the publishers behind us, we can stay focused on our core mission and work to increase the number of books available to educate, excite and entertain our users."

Whilst, the deal announced and the terms enforced of which author or publisher have choice to or not to fully disclosed their work, means that publishers will be able to choose to make their books available to Google or to have them detached from the project. Google Books will generate 20% of any book browsable and also allow users to purchase the whole book.

Reference

1       1) D.Denning. Protection and Defense of Intrusion. Georgetown University, 1996 (February 28–March 1). Paper based on a talk given at the conference on ‘National Security in the Information Age’ at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. [Online] Available http://www.cs.georgetown. edu/ ̃denning/infosec/USAFA.html, July 1, 1999