RE: Re: Interpreting 17, 108 (a)

See the sample pages at
http://print.google.com/googleprint/screenshots.html.

The page for an UNsubmitted book still in copyright will have ads linked to the book. Google has been reported elsewhere to say that it will run ordinary book-related ads, such as ads for bookstores and publishers, and it also hopes to access bookstores' and publishers' own inventory data in order to show ads where the book is actually available at the moment, thereby adding value to the user's search experience and, of course, to its ads.

Also, here is what Google says is it's copyright rationale:

"http://print.google.com/googleprint/publisher_library.html#gen5

"Policy Questions

"2. Does scanning comply with copyright law?

"Yes. The use Google makes is fully consistent with both the history of fair use under copyright law, and also all the principles underlying copyright law itself. Copyright law has always been about ensuring that authors will continue to write books and publishers continue to sell them. By making books easier to find, buy, and borrow from libraries, Google Print helps increase the incentives for authors to write and publishers to sell books. To achieve that goal, we need to make copies of books, but these copies are permitted under copyright law.

"This project is very similar to web search. In order to electronically index a webpage, you need to make a copy of it. In order to electronically index a book, we have to make a digital copy of the book. As with web search, the copies we make are used to direct people to the books. Our experience with web search is that many people ask to have their web pages included in our search results and very few ask to be excluded."

This says to me that they are not seeing a difference between publishing links and publishing excerpts of books.

• Mike Bradley www.techpubs.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
> [mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org]On Behalf Of Freya Anderson
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:01 PM
> To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
> Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Interpreting 17, 108 (a)
>
>
> This is a bit misleading. While ads appear in the publisher
program, where
> presumably copyright is not a problem because they have permissions,
> according to Google they do not appear with results from
> scanned library books. See
>
> http://print.google.com/googleprint/publisher_library.html#gen5
>
> Freya
>
> Mike Bradley wrote:
>
> > It's definitely for profit. Google is already marketing the
> > ad space that
> > will accompany the books--used book stores and search
> > services, publishers
> > of books by the same author or on the same topic, etc.
> >
> >
>
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