Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate

December 20, 2006 Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate (AP)

Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt gestures during a news conference in a Mountain View, Calif. file photo from Sept. 28, 2005 to announce plans to build a new one million square foot corporate campus at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. Google and NASA said Monday that they have finalized an agreement to deliver more of the space agency's imagery and information through the Internet's leading search engine. Under the arrangement, Ames will feed Google with its weather forecasting information, three-dimensional maps of the moon and Mars, and real-time tracking of the International Space Station and space shuttle flights so the pictures and data are available to anyone with an Internet connection. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

(AP) -- Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents.

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