[The News Bot]

Google Books offers concessions to European publishers, concerned at the impact of its digital library project.
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[TheForge]

Scanning of somone else work seems to border on theft.

It seems akin to me going into a shop, buying an out of copyright book, changing the publishers name to mine then offering it to the public as my product.

Should they not be required to TYPE the whole book in from scratch.

Does this now mean we can take high quality photos of famous artworks and then offer digital copies to the public?

I am off to the louver with a 50mp Camera!

The Forge(r)

[Steven]

When discussing such an area it is important to remember the law of copyright offers particular protection and rights of usage, and is entirely separate and different to the criminal law of theft which has a different emphasis and intention