Monday, September 7, 2009

Google To Remove European Titles From US E-Book Settlement

From The Wall Street Journal:

BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Online search giant Google Inc. (GOOG) Monday said it will remove all European books that are still commercially available from a $125 million U.S. settlement with publishers to scan orphaned and out-of-print books in the U.S. and sell them online.

The concessions come given the concerns of European authors and publishers, who don't want the search engine to scan books by European authors, which are still protected by copyrights, without asking their permission.

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