14 DAY TRIAL // Google has announced a series of changes to its ambitious Google Print project, which has caused many controversies between the search engine and libraries.
Google, which is joined by libraries, like Stanford's and Harvard's, said that it will cease the scanning of books whose copyrights require the publisher's consent.
Google will resume the scanning process in November, until then, the company planning to introduce some changes in its Google Print Publisher Program. The program will be used by publishers and authors to specify the books which may be scanned and introduced in the search engine's database.
The Google Print project has been lambasted many times by those who claimed that it infringes copyrights. That is why, Google has introduced a change that will allow publishers to specify which books may be scanned entirely and the ones which can be reproduced only partially to avoid copyright infringement.
The titles with copyright issues will be scanned entirely, but Google Print will display only some pages from these books.
Within this program, publishers will be able to point out which titles shouldn't be scanned at all by Google.
Google will send to the publisher and to the library electronic copies of the books that have been included in the database.