The Google Books Library Project seeks to digitise and make searchable the contents of a number of major research libraries in the US and around the world for commercial purposes. While such a ...

Google was once working on a project to scan almost all books ever published and make out-of-copyright books accessible with one click. However, the project was blocked by legal barriers, and the ...

Google was found guilty by a French court today of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online. The search engine company initially started scanning books without permission ...

A group representing authors in a copyright case slammed Google in court on Thursday, saying the company's book-scanning project has hurt millions of authors whose works have been digitized. The ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, today became the first UC campus to contribute a shipment of books from its library for the Google Books Library Project. The massive project was launched in ...

The Authors Guild has five universities and a library partnership organization alleging copyright infringement over their use of certain digitized copies of books made by Google in its Books Library ...

Does the HathiTrust fair-use ruling suggest victory for Google Books Library Project? Slate tracks the "historical beef against women readers Amazon notifies customers of potential ebook lawsuit ...

The Google Books Project Google Books consists of two parts: the Partner Program and the Library Project. In the Partner Program, the rights holders, primarily publishers, grant Google the right to ...