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In 2005, Harvard had agreed to scan 40,000 of its public domain holdings in a pilot program, contributing to the 12 million works Google Books has already digitized.
In October 2008, the University decided not to partner with Google, objecting to the terms of a $125 million settlement that Google reached with several publishing houses and the Authors Guild, which had sued for “massive” copyright infringement.
In February, Bol had asked, “What is Harvard’s rationale for not joining the settlement to date?”
The article also stated that Harvard had agreed to scan 40,000 of its public domain holdings in 2005. To clarify, this figure was part of the pilot project, and the public domain project has actually involved the scanning of hundreds of thousands of Harvard books.
With the restructuring of the committee—which had focused on the development of undergraduate courses—human rights education will become the responsibility of the Ethnic Studies Committee, an interdisciplinary collection of faculty that introduced a secondary degree in Ethnic Studies this year.