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Google place in libraries the world safer after the new agreement last tuesday (28 oct).
The agreement with the authors’ Guild and the Association of American Publishers willingness to resolve a number of lawsuits over the past three years.
Google is a non-profit book on the Rights of the Secretariat for the protected works through subscription services or advertising revenue.
Registration of items, and Google will be worth $ 125m (£ 80m).
However, the agreement still needs the approval of U. S. District Court for the settlement of disputes.
If approved, this agreement is much broader access to printed books, and a large number of printed works protected by copyright.
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The system will also be set up for subscription services institutions such as universities, full access to online collections of libraries around the world, with free access to the U.S. public and university libraries.
A number of university libraries of America, took part in the operation of mediation and, in general, the libraries are expected soon efforts.
Web users can create online library with opportunities to acquire life to read and print books scanned into Google search.
The applicant has benefited from the trial because the agreement will be more opportunities to buy books still in copyright, as well as revenues from subscriptions and advertising.
“As a reader and researcher, I would like to go through my local library to see the stacks of some of the great libraries,” said Roy Blount Jr., president of the Guild sponsors.
“As the author, well, we pay when people of our work. This measure makes sense.”
source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7695507.stm
