Digitized Books: Publishers & Google Settle Lawsuit

AAP and Google settle… questions remain

October 4th, 2012 by Kara Malenfant in Advocacy 

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From the ALA Washington Office District Dispatch blog:

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced today (Oct. 4) they have reached a settlement in their lawsuit filed in 2005 against Google, Inc. According to AAP’s press release,

US publishers can choose to make available or choose to remove their books and journals digitized by Google for its Library Project….Apart from the settlement, US publishers can continue to make individual agreements with Google for use of their other digitally-scanned works.

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Source: American Library Association.

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