ALPSP is the international trade association for notforprofit publishers. The association published a response to Google Print for Libraries digitisation project.
Both of the above initiatives, however, are carried out in the context of
explicit agreements with participating publishers; thus, the copying and
resultant indexing of content which they entail is done with publishers’
permission and therefore does not infringe copyright. Publishers are free
to choose whether or not to participate, and to define the parameters of
their participation.
There was lot of discussion about Google print but everything is legal. Not only that “We also encouraged participation
in ‘Google Print for Publishers’” said Sally Morris, Chief Executive ALPSP, in the response. Google is doing great job, and there is no doubt that lot want to find something to use it against them.
