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Originally Posted by murraypaul
It isn't fair use.
It is copyright infringement on a massive scale.
That is what gets called piracy in other situations.
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For living authors, how is it piracy at all? Why wouldn't they want Google to provide at least a scanned portion of their book? That way they can allow people to find their books and possibly buy a copy.
For those that aren't sure what's going on, here's an explanatory paragraph from Tech Crunch:
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The Library Project is not about full-length content, but is more about giving book excerpts. “We’re working with several major libraries to include their collections in Google Books and, like a card catalog, show users information about the book, and in many cases, a few snippets – a few sentences to display the search term in context,” says Google in its intro to the service.
That still didn’t wash with publishers, though, who maintained that the “excerpt” was enough for those TL;DR people out there who would be put off from buying the actual item as a result.
...publishers will get to “choose to make available or choose to remove their books and journals digitized by Google for its Library Project.” Those who stay in get digital copies for their own use — possibly even to sell through other routes.
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What's the downside to authors in your view? Are you confusing this with Google's ongoing litigation with the Authors Guild?