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• Κανελλοπούλου-Μπότη, Μαρία

The paper describes the Google Library Project, a program by Google todigitize the entire content of five of the biggest libraries of the world.The purpose of this digitization is to offer an online catalogue, throughwhich users can search where in this huge content the words the list intheir search exist. A sentence or two, containing these words will beexposed with each search (‘snippets’). The project faced immediateadverse reaction by publishers and author’s organizations, despite theopt-out possibility they are offered, to extract content from the project.The main legal problems related to digitization are presented. Adiscussion about the program’s legitimacy and its future follows.

• Other Humanities

• Library science

ψηφιακές βιβλιοθήκες, ψηφιοποίηση, ορφανά έργα, copyright, google library project, δικαίωμα πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας, Digital libraries, digitization, orphan wokrs