Washington, United States | AFP |
The project of the gigantic digital library Google overcame the final hurdle on Monday after the Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal alleging violation of the law rights author.
the high court rejected without comment a request from the Association of Authors to consider the appeal against a decision taken in 2013 by a federal court, seen as a benchmark on copyright in the digital age.
During the look on Google Books is basic information such as title, author, basic bibliography, date of publication, publisher. In some cases also they are quotations and in many cases there are links that redirect to bookstores or publishers in which texts are available. If they are public domain books that are no longer under copyright, you may download them or read them in your PDF version, available for printing.
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Google works with more than 40 libraries around the world with the idea to digitize their collections and make them accessible to users.
“you will have a guide to find books in local libraries, will also serve to they can reach publishers and booksellers. The public domain books will be more available, “said Sidney Verba, Director of the Harvard Library in the project home page. Johanna Rachinger, director of the National Library of Austria, ensures -within the testimonies gathered by Google- that the project is an important step towards democratizing knowledge.
From the Complutense find that Google Books gives the possibility users have access to their collection that was previously only available for those who could travel to the university library. “The opportunities for education are phenomenal and we are delighted to be working with Google on this project” said Professor Carlos Berzosa.
They are part of the project public and state libraries of Austria, Lyon, Catalonia, Bavaria ; in addition to the collections of the universities of Columbia, Cornell, Ghent, Harvard, Keio, California, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Complutense de Madrid, Lausanne, Virginia, Austin, Wisconsin, Michigan.
More in: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/library/
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