Google's book plan drawing ire | News.blog | CNET News.com

Google's book plan drawing ire | News.blog | CNET News.com: "Yet another publishing industry group is marshalling support to put a crimp into Google's plans to make the contents of many books available via its search engine.
The latest group to join the protest against Google's Library Print Project is the Text and Academic Authors Association, which maintains that the company's plan to scan the collections of five major libraries and make those materials accessible through its search engine is 'backwards' and 'in conflict with both the spirit and the law of copyright.'
The TAA joins at least two other publishing groups that have criticized Google's plan, the Association of American Publishers and the American Association of University Presses. All three of the groups contend that Google is essentially ignoring copyright law by making the published works available freely over the Internet. "