Last year Google announced deals with five of the world’’s top universities, including Harvard and Oxford, to scan much of the contents of their libraries into the Internet. The idea was to make millions of important but previously (36)________texts available to researchers everywhere with a few clicks of the mouse.
The head of Oxford University’’s library service said the project could turn out to be almost as important as the.(37)________of the printing press. Google (38)________claimed its motives were purely altruistic, the realization of a longstanding dream for the group’’s (39)________ founders Sergey Page and Larry Brin who’’d worked on a digital library project during their student days.
But from the start Google’’s plan met opposition. The latest sign of this is a letter to Google from the American (40)________of University Presses which represents (41)________academic publishers. The organization wants (42)________on sixteen issues, claiming the book scanning scheme appears to involve systematic infringement of copyright on a massive (43)________.
Other opposition has come from France, where there are fears that the Google project will enhance of the dominance of the English language and Anglo-Saxon ways of thinking. (44)________________________.
Supporters of the Google scheme say copyright is protected (45)________________________, and (46)________________________.
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because many of the works being initially scanned in are old......