[Upd-discuss] Re: [BP] Google "library" sparks French warcry (fwd)

[Michael Hart]

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:19:08 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Book People mailing list <spok+bookpeople@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [BP] Google "library" sparks French warcry

The newspaper accounts were somewhat overstated. One of the officials
of the French National Library spoke in favour of creating a similar
project for French language books. The so-called warcry was a small
part of the speech. I think a French project would be a great idea.
As would similar projects in any other language you can think of.

Rod Hay



Quoting Steve Thomas <stephen.thomas@adelaide.edu.au>:
> "France's national library has raised a "warcry" over plans by
> Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on
> the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead a
> domination of American ideas. ..."
>
>
<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050218/od_uk_nm/oukoe_france_usa_
google_1>
>

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