Jan F. Constantine – the General Counsel of Authors Guild in the USA was the second on the session called Google, Publishing & Electronic Libraries: Visions, Challenges, Opportunities, Consequences that took place almost in the end of APE 2009. The first thing that Mr. Constantine talked about was the settlement between Google and Authors Guild. He told that GBS (Google Book Search) offers books protected by copyright that could be previewed and bought; books protected by copyright that are out of print but available through preprint and books that are protected by copyright that can be read, downloaded and even printed. Moreover, Jan F. Constantine underlines that users of Google should pay for downloadable PDF files or pay-per-view scheme.
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Archive for April, 2009
Settlement between Google and Authors Guild from Jan F. Constantine
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Challenges for the future from Director of RIN
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009It was very interesting report named “Forward, but in what Direction?” that was presented by Director of Research Information Network (RIN) Dr. Michael Jubb. He emphasized that governments invest money in research because of the positive influence on society and that governments want to increase or maximize that influence. Costs of research are increasing and cost-effectiveness becomes one of the dominant themes. Dr. Michael Jubb said that there is less knowledge about how information resources and services are used. Users don’t know and don’t understand how digital information system works but they want to get fast access to information they need and to evaluation services.
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Aims of Google Book Search from Daniel J. Clancy
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Dr. Daniel J. Clancy – Engineering Director of Google Inc., was presenting his report about aims of Google Book Search. He underlined that Google is looking forward about making book finding as easy as finding some webpage. Dr. J. Clancy thinks it would help Google’s users to find books they need and read them sitting home without going to libraries. Google Book Search has two huge sources: 1. The partner program, 2. The library project. He says that for books that are protected by copyright search results would be like random text pieces or table of contents and that books that are out of copyright may be read or downloaded.
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