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The Google Book Project Takes Aim at Industry's Content Cache
Google's Book Library Project (Book Search) proposes to scan into its searchable database the entire collections of four prominent university libraries as well as that of the New York Public Library. Once completed, users will be able to search the text of hundreds of thousands of books through the search engine.
Groups of publishers and authors have separately sued Google in the Southern District of New York asserting that the book search project is copyright infringement. Google has responded by asserting that the project is "fair use." The litigation thus pits a "content" industry -- represented by the publishers -- against the forces of digitization -- represented by search monolith Google.
In the January 3, 2006 New York Law Journal, Peter J. Pizzi, a member of the firm's Internet and Information Law group, writes that the ability of computers to create perfect copies and, through the Internet, to disperse copies instantly, has lead to continuing conflicts between "content" industries and the forces of Internet-based information technology. Pizzi's article, which is titled "Google's Book Project -- Search Engine Seeks to Digitize Industries' Content Cache" is available here. Pizzi contributes regularly to the New York Law Journal's Technology Today section. Ryan McGonigle assisted in the preparation of the article.
For more information about copyright and IP issues, please contact Peter J. Pizzi directly at (973) 533-4221 or ppizzi@connellfoley.com.
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