Google Print Probably Legal

Copyright practice isn't copyright law, and the latter seems to be on Google's side even though publisher interests claim otherwise. Once November rolls around, Pat Schroeder and her Association of American Publishers will either have to file a lawsuit or back down. The ambitious Google Print project, which will see the search engine scan thousands of books from the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library, plans to begin scanning books again in November. Google had responded to publisher complaints by declaring a moratorium on book scanning, and agreeing not to scan books publishers request be omitted from the project. Publishers lambasted Google and said it needs to list the books it wants to scan and ask specific permission for them. Legal experts here