EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROBE GOOGLE LIBRARY PROJECT
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to launch an inquiry into the digitalisation of millions of books by Google, without the permission of their rights holders, to see whether the European Union (EU) should protect authors and publishers.
This follows a request made yesterday (28-3) by the EU Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels. The meeting's chair, the Czech industry and trade minister Vladimír To?ovský said the Commission had been asked to consider proposing "steps to protect the rights of European authors." He said Brussels would ...
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