Google to subpoena Yahoo! and Microsoft in library battle
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Book 'em, Google New developments in online selling and the lawPublishers and authors are taking Google to court over its programme to digitise the libraries of four US universities, Oxford university library and the New York Public Library.â¦
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In an unusually aggressive effort to block Microsoftâs $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft attorney will attack Google's book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model. Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel, will address the AAP's annual meeting in New York, stating that while Microsoft's Live Search Books honors copyright protection and fair use, Google's Book Search abuses it. "In my view, Google has chosen the wrong path for the longer term, because it systematically violates copyright and deprives authors and publishers of an important avenue for monetizing their works," Rubin said in a copy of the speech posted on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal. Rubin also addressed the issue in a commentary written for Monday's edition of The Financial Times. "Google defends its actions primarily by arguing that its unauthorized copying and future monetization of your books are protected as fair use," the speech says. At issue is Microsoft's contention that Google has taken the position that it may scan, catalog, and display content published in book form under fair use principles unless the copyright right holders tells them not to. Rubin also says in his speech that Google then profits from material to which it does not own the copyright by running advertising along with it. He says that Microsoft seeks and receives permission from all publishers of copyrighted material before including it among titles that can be searched. A search for Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" on Google Book Search brought up noÂ ads on the results page, but inserted one ad below four pages of scanned text. In contrast, Microsoft's Live Search Books, currently being beta-tested, brought up only one title in its search results, a book called "Search and Struggle for Quality and Independence," which cites Hemingway's tale as a reference. No advertising appears on the results page or the book's page. Rubin calls Google's attitude towards copyright protection "weak at best" and cites accusations leveled atÂ Google-owned YouTubeÂ over failure to remove copyrighted material as proof of that. "Anyone who visits YouTube, whichÂ Google purchased last year, will immediately recognize that it follows a similar cavalier approach to copyright," said Rubin. Google did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The U.S. Copyright Office defines "fair use" on its Web site as: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported." Â
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A Microsoft Corp. lawyer plans to criticize Google Inc.'s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying the search company is abusing copyright and fair use rules.
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You can't have our trade secrets Yahoo! has refused to provide Google with details of its book digitising programme that Google believes could help it to defend itself in a lawsuit. Amazon.com has already turned down a similar request.â¦
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Google Works with Libraries to Search Book Collections  Google is taking its searchers away from the bookstore, and back to the library. Google today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public ...
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Google Inc. has partnered with five of the world&#39;s leading libraries, including those at Stanford and Harvard, to digitally scan their collections so that the books can be searched, and in many cases read, online free of charge.
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Written by Net 4 Nowt As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google Inc. has announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and
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Google has scheduled an appeal for July 17 in itsÂ copyright dispute with Belgian newspaper publishers, although the two sides expect to request an extension while they try to resolve the conflict amicably, spokespeople for Google and the publishing group, Copiepresse, said on Tuesday.
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While rivals scramble to catch up on the desktop, Google plans to digitize famous libraries. Itâs official. Google is the most dangerous media company on the planet.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it would offer improved capacity to search copyrighted  books on the Internet as the company battles Google Inc.   for advertising dollars from Web-based services.
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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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YahooÂs refusal to talk about its efforts to create digital copies of books is another setback for Google as it prepares to fight a copyright infringement suit.
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A good place to see the true frontline  in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the bowels of the  British Library in London.
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Yahoo's fiercest competitor, Google, has raised concerns about the possibility of Microsoft's takeover. Google's motives, of course, are hardly pure.
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Google and Yahoo announced today that they have resolved two contentious issues between the companies.
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GOOGLE, with whom I spend more time than with my loved ones, is planning to put the contents of the worldâs greatest libraries on line, including the Bodleian in Oxford and those of Harvard and Stanford in America.