CEO Steals Google Laptops !

June 10th, 2007 by Annkur

The chief executive of a major book publisher swiped a couple of computers from Google’s booth at a recent trade show. Really and he not only admitted it, he bragged about it on his blog.

There was “no sign saying ‘please do not steal the computers,’” wrote Richard Charkin of Macmillan Publishers. He contends that the “theft” was no worse than Google’s Book Search Library Project, in which the company means to digitize the book collections of big libraries around the world to make them searchable online.
With Book Search and its accompanying Library Project, Google is attempting to digitize the book collections held by many of the worlds leading libraries and serve them up to Web users.

But in the fall of 2005 after the company began scanning collections at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, the New York Public Library, and others the Association of American Publishers and The Authors Guild filed suit against the company, claiming that the project infringed on the copyrights of publishers and authors.

In many cases, Google wont refrain from scanning a copyrighted book unless it receives a specific request from the copyright owner.’

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