Comments on: Harvard decides to opt out of Google book scanning http://www.librarian.net/stax/2492/harvard-decides-to-opt-out-of-google-book-scanning/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: links for 2008-11-04 « Nur mein Standpunkt http://www.librarian.net/stax/2492/harvard-decides-to-opt-out-of-google-book-scanning/comment-page-1/#comment-120961 links for 2008-11-04 « Nur mein Standpunkt Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:05:36 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2492#comment-120961 [...] Harvard decides to opt out of Google book scanning (tags: netbib) [...] [...] Harvard decides to opt out of Google book scanning (tags: netbib) [...]

]]> By: Jon Gorman http://www.librarian.net/stax/2492/harvard-decides-to-opt-out-of-google-book-scanning/comment-page-1/#comment-120949 Jon Gorman Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:47:29 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2492#comment-120949 Like mentioned on a couple other sites, it seems Harvard isn't changing anything but re-affirming their current policy that Google doesn't get in-copyrighted books to scan. The faq on the project: http://hul.harvard.edu/hgproject/faq.html It seems a bit of questionable reporting for the article. What seems to happen was the settlement caused them to re-consider in-copyright works, but they ultimately decided that it was not the time for it. That doesn't mean they've decided not to be part of the project. Like mentioned on a couple other sites, it seems Harvard isn’t changing anything but re-affirming their current policy that Google doesn’t get in-copyrighted books to scan.

The faq on the project:

http://hul.harvard.edu/hgproject/faq.html

It seems a bit of questionable reporting for the article. What seems to happen was the settlement caused them to re-consider in-copyright works, but they ultimately decided that it was not the time for it. That doesn’t mean they’ve decided not to be part of the project.

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