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...project has garnered criticism from American publishers for copyright infringement and from European library officials for its emphasis on the English language and American culture...
Several publishing organizations have claimed that the project infringes on copyright law. According to Sally Morris, Chief Executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society publishers—an international association of over 300 publishers—this sort of digitization may be illegal...
...does not permit wholesale copying by a commercial organization of works that are still in copyright,” Morris wrote in an e-mail earlier this year. “It is also illegal to make those works available digitally once they have been copied...
...Google spokesperson addressed the potential for copyright infringement by underscoring the corporation’s commitment to working with individual publishers to carefully designate the copyrighted materials...
However, Jonathan Zittrain, faculty co-director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, expressed none of Morris’s concerns over possible copyright infringement...