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Google Digital Library to Scan Stanford's

Posted on: Sunday, 13 August 2006, 21:00 CDT

Google creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page are returning to their California roots to add to Google's digital library, despite opposition to the effort.

The Washington Post said the two talents behind the search engine, which they created at Stanford University near San Francisco in 1998, are going back to the school as part of their controversial effort to digitize literary works from libraries across the nation.

Brin and Page's plan already has drawn lawsuits from the Authors Guild and a group of major publishing houses last year, which accused the Google owners of mass copyright infringement, the Post said.

In defense, Google has argued that as long as a literary search only reveals snippets of a published work then no copyright laws have been violated.

The Post said as part of their agreement with the university, Brin and Page will be able to scan all of the contents of its libraries in return for its own copies of the high-quality digital scans.

Source: United Press International

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