-
Google makes an agreement with the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files.
-
The Author's Guild filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and its Google Library project.
-
The Association of American Publishers filed a lawsuit seeking to block Google’s plan to digitize large collections of books.
-
The University of California joins three other universities - Stanford, the University of Michigan and Harvard - that are contributing their vast library collections to Google's project.
-
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases.
-
A group of major libraries that are participating in Google’s Library Project, said they are working together to create what amounts to a publicly accessible backup of the digital library that Google is creating.
-
Three groups representing libraries, including the American Library Association have asked a federal judge to exercise “vigorous oversight” over a class-action settlement between Google, authors and publishers.
-
Opposition mounts in Europe to a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the right to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.
-
Google Inc. and Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Livre publishing unit reached an agreement to allow the scanning of Hachette’s out-of-print French books for the search engine’s digital library project.
-
A federal judge in New York rejected a sweeping $125 million legal settlement the company had worked out with groups representing authors and publishers.
-
Google Inc. was sued for 9.8 million euros ($14 million) by three French publishers who said the search-engine company scanned books without permission.
