Accordo Google-Ministero della cultura

Official Google Blog: A digital renaissance: partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

Today we’re announcing an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage that will push this vision forward. Working with the National Libraries of Florence and Rome, we’ll digitize up to a million out-of-copyright works.

MiBAC / Google: Conferenza Stampa di presentazione di uno storico accordo.

Roma, 10 marzo 2010 - Google e il Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali hanno annunciato oggi una collaborazione che consentirà a chiunque nel mondo di accedere a fino a un milione di libri non coperti da copyright conservati nelle Biblioteche Nazionali di Roma e Firenze.

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Germany: Google book deal violates copyright law | Reuters.

Critics have said the deal would allow Google -- and only Google -- to digitize so-called orphan works, which could pose an antitrust concern. Orphan works are books or other materials that are still covered by U.S. copyright law, but it is not clear who owns the rights to them.

Google Book Search remains on hold - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com.

Google's Book Search project will remain on hold after it emerged that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) still has concerns that it may breach anti-trust laws. The search giant announced its intention to digitise thousands of books in December 2004, and a year later faced class-action lawsuits from the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP), both of which claimed that the firm did not adequately recognise the rights of copyright holders

Google argues with U.K. publishers over digital libraries - CNET News.

Google has again clashed with publishers over its controversial program to scan, digitize and make searchable the collections of libraries in the U.S. and the U.K.

French court shuts down Google Books project - Los Angeles Times.

The Paris court's ruling, that the Google digitization project violates France's strict copyright laws, applies only to French-published books. It's the first major courtroom loss for Google Books.