Google will allow visitors to its Book Search site to download free PDF copies of works in the public domain
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Google offers free book downloads
Classics and public domain texts free for all
Will Head,
vnunet.com 31 Aug 2006
Google
is planning to allow free downloads of out-of-copyright books, according to
media reports.
Associated
Press said that the search giant will allow visitors to its
Book
Search site to download free PDF copies of works in the public domain.
Google previously allowed surfers to read only out-of-copyright texts on
screen.
Books protected by copyright, however, will not be available for download. In
such cases Google will instead offer excerpts and bibliographic information of
the title.
Google has run into problems with its project to digitise books in the past.
The firm was
sued
by the
US
Authors Guild in September last year, accused of widespread copyright
infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.
In June this year French publisher
La
Martinière Groupe filed a
lawsuit against
Google, alleging that Google Books amounts to "counterfeiting" and "breach
of intellectual property rights". The publisher demanded damages of €100,000 for
each scanned book.
At the time, Google said in a statement to
vnunet.com
that it was disappointed that the publisher filed the suit, and vowed to defend
itself in court.
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