Policy · 2h ago
$200k Bounty Offered for Google Books Scans
Anna's Archive, a shadow library project, has posted a $200,000 bounty for a complete copy of Google Books' scanned collection. The bounty targets the 40 million+ books digitized by Google, aiming to make them freely accessible. This follows legal battles over Google's book scanning project.
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The bounty highlights ongoing tensions between copyright law and digital preservation, but the legality of such a bounty remains highly questionable.
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