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Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database
Google makes an agreement with the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files. -
Authors, Google Square Off
The Author's Guild filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and its Google Library project. -
Publishers Group Sues Google over Library Project
The Association of American Publishers filed a lawsuit seeking to block Google’s plan to digitize large collections of books. -
University of California System Joins Google Book Project
The University of California joins three other universities - Stanford, the University of Michigan and Harvard - that are contributing their vast library collections to Google's project. -
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases. -
An Elephant Backs Up Google’s Library
A group of major libraries that are participating in Google’s Library Project, said they are working together to create what amounts to a publicly accessible backup of the digital library that Google is creating. -
Libraries Ask Judge to Monitor Google Books Settlement
Three groups representing libraries, including the American Library Association have asked a federal judge to exercise “vigorous oversight” over a class-action settlement between Google, authors and publishers. -
European Opposition Mounts Against Google’s Selling Digitized Books
Opposition mounts in Europe to a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the right to commercialize digital copies of millions of books. -
Google, Lagardere's Hachette Agree to Allow Scanning of Out-of-Print Books
Google Inc. and Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Livre publishing unit reached an agreement to allow the scanning of Hachette’s out-of-print French books for the search engine’s digital library project. -
Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books
A federal judge in New York rejected a sweeping $125 million legal settlement the company had worked out with groups representing authors and publishers. -
Google Sued by French Publishers for $14 Million Over Books
Google Inc. was sued for 9.8 million euros ($14 million) by three French publishers who said the search-engine company scanned books without permission.
