Google to Re-Publish 244 Years of Newspaper Articles? - Editor & Publisher, 9/9/08

Google to Re-Publish 244 Years of Newspaper Articles?: "Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years...

Besides the [Quebec] Chronicle-Telegraph, other newspapers that have already agreed to allow Google to copy and host their archives include the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida...

Google already has committed to spending tens of millions of dollars to make electronic copies of books and other material kept in dozens of libraries around the world. The book-copying program, launched in 2004, has triggered a lawsuit from group of authors and publishers that alleges it infringes on copyrights — a charge that Google is fighting."
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