Shrugging off the intellectual copyright claims of those in the book publishing industry, online advertising behemoth Google said in a
Wall Street Journal report it will resume the scanning of
library books in the collections of Stanford University and the University of Michigan. The company stopped the process three months ago after a very public backlash by publishers over copyright
issues, giving them until today to request that their books not be scanned--instead of formally asking for permission. Google says it will begin scanning out-of-print books first, which it thinks will
help its argument that the project will not negatively affect book sales.
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