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Despite initial awe for Google's project to digitise and make library books searchable online, some publishers are now criticising the plan, calling it a "broad-sweeping violation of the [American] Copyright Act."
Australian libraries are likely to continue resisting calls from Google to have their collections digitised and made available for search until the Web giant settles disputes with bodies representing copyright holders in the United States.
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