Paris threatens Google over book-scanning

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Series Details 13.1.10
Publication Date 13/01/2010
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The French government threatened on the 12 January 2010 to eject Google from a project to digitise the collection of the French national library unless the internet group radically changed the terms of its book-scanning project.

An independent review for the French government proposed either investing heavily in and overhauling Gallica (a French digitisation project), beefing up Europeana, the European book search portal, or establishing a public-private partnership with Google.

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Yahoo News, 31.3.10: Google faces new book-scanning lawsuit in France (AFP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100331/tc_afp/franceusinternetmediacompanygooglepublishing
ESO: Background information: French ruling raises resistance to Google http://www.europeansources.info/record/french-ruling-raises-resistance-to-google/

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