hunderdown - 4:08 pm on May 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Folks, keep in mind that there are some different Google Print projects going on.

On the one hand, they want to work with some major libraries to digitize many classic 19th century works, clearly in the public domain, even in the edition they will be using.

On the other hand, they want to digitize many in-print, in-copyright books, and that's the project that has publishers up in arms. This may take years to play out--Google is asserting it can do more under "fair use" than the publishers accept. I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up in court.