BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: Google Tries to Assuage EU Doubters of Its US Books Deal

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BOOKS: ELECTRONIC:
Google Tries to Assuage EU Doubters of Its US Books Deal



Google Tries to Assuage EU Doubters of Its US Books Deal
Paul Meller, IDG News Service
Monday, September 07, 2009 8:00 AM PDT
PC World
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google_tries_to_assuage_eu_doubters_of_its_us_books_deal.html>


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As the European Union examines a U.S. deal between Google and publishers, 
the company made concessions on Monday designed to address concerns its 
book digitization project has raised in Europe.

U.S. publishers sued Google for failing to respect their copyright when 
the company started digitizing books. They then reached a revenue-sharing 
settlement covering books that are still copyright-protected, ones whose 
copyright has expired, as well as the huge number of books that are 
technicaly still protected but have fallen out of print and where the 
copyright owner can't be located.

In a letter to 16 European book publishing companies, the search giant 
proposed giving two of the eight director positions on its proposed U.S. 
book registry to non-U.S. representatives, a person close to the company 
said Monday.

Google paid US$125 million to create the registry which will act as 
middleman between Google and the publishers and ensure that copyright 
owners are compensated.

The company also promised not to include European works in the digitizing 
process in the U.S. without consulting their publishers first.

Resistance to the U.S. deal is strong among some politicians, libraries 
and publishers, particularly in Germany and France.




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