Harvard Refuses To Open In-Copyright Books To Google

In a letter to Harvard library staff, director Robert C. Darnton said the ramifications of the settlement were too unclear for Harvard to commit to participating in the Google project.
By Antone Gonsalves writing in InformationWeek.

Harvard has refused to join Google's in-copyright book-scanning project despite a recent agreement to settle copyright-infringement lawsuits from book publishers and authors, saying the deal has too many potential limitations on electronic access to works.

The Ivy League school, however, could change its position if the settlement, which has to be approved by the U.S. District Court in New York, is modified to have more "reasonable terms," a university spokesman told the school newspaper The Harvard Crimson.
Read the full report at Information Week online.