This new article on the Google book project may be of interest:

@String{j-IEEE-SEC-PRIV = "IEEE Security \& Privacy"}

@Article{Lesk:2006:SIF,
author = "Michael Lesk",
title = "Should Indexing Be Fair Use? {The} Battle over
{Google} Book Search",
journal = j-IEEE-SEC-PRIV,
volume = "4",
number = "2",
pages = "80--83",
month = mar # "\slash " # apr,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "????",
DOI = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2006.52",
ISSN = "1540-7993",
bibdate = "Mon Apr 3 07:36:16 MDT 2006",
bibsource = "http://computer.org/security/sp2006/",
abstract = "In late 2004, Google announced as part of its Library
Project that it would scan millions of books into a
searchable online database accessible to anyone using
Google Book Search (http://books.google.com). In
response, the US Authors Guild and the Association of
American Publishers (AAP) sued Google, claiming its
book scanning is ``massive copyright infringement.''
Google says its indexing is a legitimate fair use. As
in all such discussions, two different questions arise:
What does the law say? What would be good public
policy?",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

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