The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has written to online search portal, Google expressing concerns over the company's Google Print for Libraries project.
In December 2004, Google announced plans to scan portions of the library collections of Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and Oxford University. The service will reportedly allow Google's users to search and view the full text of content which is in the public domain, and a few sentences of copyrighted material.
In a letter sent on Friday, the AAUP revealed that there was "mounting alarm and concern" amongst its 125 members over the project, which "appears to involve systemic infringement of copyright on a massive scale".
Speaking to the Associated Press on Monday, executive director of the AAUP, Peter Givler explained that: "The more we talked about it with our lawyers, the more questions bubbled up. And so far Google hasn't provided us with any good answers."
Google has claimed, however, that its use of the copyrighted material conforms to federal "fair use" laws in the United States.
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