Hi folks:
A court in France found that Google's program of digitizing books violates French copyright laws:
http://tinyurl.com/y9tk8xf
I don't know much (well, anything) about the copyright laws in France, so I don't know how they handle "fair use", but possibly the court decided that digitizing in and of itself constituted a copyright violation. That's what the plaintiffs claimed, and there's not enough information in the Times article to figure out whether that's what the court actually found.
Google offers excerpts from in-copyright books in response to searches, while directing users to places where they can buy the books; out-of-copyright books can be downloaded at no charge.
Google made a deal with publishers in the US; we'll see how this affects that. It's also interesting that the French government has its own digitization project planned.
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