Google: On En Parlera: French Publisher Sues Google Book Search
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By Gautschi, Heidi  Controversy trails Google Book Search wherever it goes. The latest bout of trouble comes from France. La Martinire Groupe, an international French publisher, filed a suit in early June against both Google, Inc.
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A court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Belgian newspapers that sued Google Inc., claiming that the Web search Internet search leader infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories.
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New York: Popular internet search engine Google has reached an agreement with four universities and one public library to scan their books and make them available the digitised contents of the same, aiming to challenge competitors Yahoo and Microsoft.
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A Belgian court has ordered Google  Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking  newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites,  a local press organization said.
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Google has launched a service for book publishers that will make book contents searchable through the web. Google Print is open to publishers of all sizes.
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Google violated the copyright of Belgian newspaper publishers when it posted extracts from their stories on its Google News Web site, a Belgian court ruled on Tuesday.
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Don't publish and .be damned Google has lost its appeal to Belgian courts to ditch part of the ruling in a copyright case against its news service which it lost earlier this month.â¦
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Complutense University in Madrid has signed an agreement with Google to enable the search giant to scan its library of 3 million works, becoming the first non-english library to join the Google Book Project. Spanish-language books including those from Cervantes and Sor Juana Ines will be digitized.
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A California-based pornographer said on Monday it has sued Google Inc. , alleging that its leading Internet search engines are illegally allowing people to view hijacked versions of its nude photos and to access its Web site with stolen passwords.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft will expand its books search engine by including copyrighted works in its index for the first time starting Thursday evening. Microsoft has obtained permission for all the copyrighted books included in the Live Search Books service, said Danielle Tiedt, general manager of the Live Search selection team. By taking this approach, Microsoft wants to avoid locking horns over copyright issues with authors and publishers. Its rival, Google, faces two copyright-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. over itsÂ decision to scan copyrighted booksÂ without always obtaining permission from copyright owners. Tiedt acknowledges that Google's wholesale scanning of copyrighted works in library collections will give it a larger database of books. But she argues that by working with publishers and obtaining their permission, Microsoft will be able to offer a better experience to users. At launch tonight, Microsoft's service will feature "tens of thousands" of copyrighted books in its index, from publishers including McGraw-Hill Companies, Simon & Schuster, and Yale University Press, Tiedt said. She declined to be more specific about the number of titles Microsoft has been permitted to scan. Publishers decide what percentage of a copyrighted book Microsoft can show to users. If user decides to buy a book, Microsoft will offer links to external sites selling it, such as online retailers like Amazon.com or publisher Web stores. In the results list, Microsoft will also show users how frequently their search terms appear in each book so that they can get a sense of how relevant each work is to their search topic. Microsoft will also show information about the books, such as length, publisher, author, publishing date, table of contents and summaries. Microsoft launched Live Search Books in December of last year, offering only books in the public domain. In addition to including copyrighted books, Microsoft will also unveil enhancements to the service's user interface tonight. Google launched its Book Search service in 2004 and initially sought permission from copyright owners before scanning their books. It later modified its approach, scanning copyrighted books without permission as well. Google argues that it is protected by the fair use principle because it only displays short text snippets from copyrighted books it scanned without permission. Critics say the very act of scanning and storing a digital copy of a book without permission constitutes infringement. Google also scans public-domain works. Â
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Google and Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse are attempting to resolve the conflict out of court.
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Controversial book search engine can be co-branded and embedded on publishers' sites.
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[Frankfurt/London | Reuters News Service, 7 October 2004] - Google yesterday introduced a new search technology to help publishers sell books online, a fast-growing market dominated by Internet retailer Amazon.
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Google has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site.
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Il motore restituirÃ  dei link che permetteranno di acquistare il libro da una scelta di retailer online. Google ha presentato la versione beta &quot;Google Print&quot;, una nuova tecnologia di consentirÃ  agli utenti
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(InfoWorld) - Google is making its controversial Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. This is the first time Google's Book Search service has been available outside of its main site in the Google.com domain. This co-branded search program benefits Google because the search engine will now be available more broadly. Meanwhile, publishers benefit by offering an additional search service to their Web site visitors. Publishers can tailor the index of their search engine so that only books published by them show up in the query results, Google said Friday. As in the main Book Search site, these result pages give users the option to link to online shops that sell the listed books. Interestingly, one of the publishers that put Book Search on its Web site is The McGraw-Hill Companies. Along with other major publishers, McGraw-Hill is suing Google for copyright infringement over Google's ongoing project to scan millions of copyright books without permission. Although McGraw-Hill's position may seem at first contradictory, it stems from the fact that Google's Book Search service has two main pieces. One focuses on securing formal partnerships with publishers, obtaining their permission to scan books and giving them control over how much of those books can be displayed by Google for free. McGraw-Hill is one of about 10,000 publishers that participate in this partner program with Google that have collectively made available about 1 million titles for scanning so far, said Tom Turvey, director of Google Book Search partnerships. About 50 publishers have embedded Book Search in their sites already, and many more are in line to do so, Turvey said. McGraw-Hill didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. Simultaneously, McGraw-Hill objects to the other portion of the Book Search operation, in which Google partners with major academic libraries to scan large portions of their collections. Those library scanning operations often involve copyrighted books, which Google is digitally copying without obtaining permission from publishers and authors.
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Google Sued by Pornography Publisher Over Image Search  Porn publisher Perfect 10 Inc. sued Google for copyright infringement last Friday, accusing Google of failing to  remove from its search results thousands of photos posted online (on non-Google sites)without permission from Perfect 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District ...