Google Will Seek EU Publishers’ Permission For U.S. Books Project

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the right side of EU states’ copyright law. Google confirmed to paidContent:UK in a statement that it will digitize either the full text or excerpts from “commercially available” books—but says “such books can only be displayed to U.S. users if expressly authorized by rights holders”…