Friday, August 12, 2005

Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books

An AP newswire article by Michael Leidtke, via SFGate.com, reports that:

Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine.

The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its Web site just before midnight Thursday by Adam Smith, the manager of its ambitious program to convert millions of books into a digital format.

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