What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
Edsurge
AUGUST 10, 2017
It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.
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