http://www.super-life.net Technology, Gadgets, the Online World Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:12:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.super-life.net/digitise-world-books-16 http://www.super-life.net/digitise-world-books-16#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:56:21 +0000 Ella http://www.super-life.net/?p=16 The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the worlds books and create a vast online library has intensified. A settlement of $125m was made with authors and publishers. The settlement was reached last October stemmed from a 2006 legal suit that Google faced for scanning out of print works without explicit permission from rights holders. If the ruling is in favour of Google then the Web Giant will create a Books Rights Registry where authors and publishers could register works and be compensated. An advantage this brings to individuals is access to any book no matter where it is in the world.

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