Google co-founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin at their company's headquarters (AP)
Google' Big Book Plan Story aired: Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tonight at the New York Public Library, some of the country's leading legal and literary minds will debate Google's plan to digitize all books. Google announced the plan a year ago and has since been scanning books with the help of several universities and publishers.
Groups representing authors and publishers are suing Google, alleging copyright infringement. Some supporters of Google say that technology is making copyright law obsolete.
Google is only putting online full editions of books that were written before 1923. For books published after that time, Google says it will only publish excerpts.
Guests:
Jack Bernard, lawyer for the University of Michigan
Nick Taylor, president of the Author's Guild
Sive Vaidhyanathan, copyright expert at New York University
