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Google Books accelerates the digitalization de books in Spain
Google wants to extend to Spain the agreement reached the past October with the publishers de the United States, with which aim to years de litigation with publishing houses and authors was put whom they blamed the giant de Internet to have scanned his works without permission.
The agreement not only contemplates to compensate to the affected ones, but also the possibility that the American users can acquire and have the book online in their totality. Once American justice ratifies the next June the agreement, Google has intention to begin to negotiate with the organizations de management de rights (in Spain is the Spanish Center de Rights de Reproduction CEDAR and the Spanish publishing houses, so that they can take refuge in the new routes de commercialization that abre east program.
“The Spanish publishing houses move between the logical fear to the stranger and the sense de expectancy about how Internet can be a solution to make arrive its works at much more people than the one than allows the traditional distribution”, explains Luis Col, person in charge de Google Book Search in Spain.
At the moment, CEDAR assures that more than 5,000 Spanish authors and 300 publishing houses have given the mandate so that they ask for the possible compensations that can correspond to them by the scanned one de their works in the United States. Google assures that the holders de affected rights de author have right to an indemnification de 60 dollars by work.
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