Italy agreed with Google to scan a book Millner, including Dante

7 hours 25 mins ago Italy and internet giant Google signed an agreement in Rome mircoles to digitize a book Millner belonging held in public libraries of Rome and Florence, including Dante and Classics Petrarch. Continue reading the printed article "Google finance digitalizacin of such works and installing a center in Italy for its implemen" said clebre bsqueda engine in a statement. "This is the first agreement we signed with a Ministry of Culture of a country," said Nikesh Arora, Google's sales manager, during a news conference. "It is a very important agreement since the POLICIES standpoint. Italy is located at the forefront in this sector with the desire to greatly enrich the cultural heritage on the Internet free, "said Italian Culture Minister Sandro Bondi. Among the books are digitized SERN the complete works of Dante, author of "The Divine Comedy," one of the masters of literature texts and considered the 'father of language' Italian. Books are available at the pgina podrn Google Books. Also being digitized the poet's humanist Petrarch, as as the scholar and poet Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni writer. Also Google provide digitized copies of all works to libraries, which podrn Also be consulted by other websites. Some 285,000 books were cataloged and translated as the National Library Service (SBN) , precis Google. Among the selected papers include rare works from the library of scientists' Florence and treaties of the eighteenth and nineteenth century literary texts. Rome library will be available the work of Galileo Galilei and older trials of farmacologay herbalogist. Since Google announced the digitalizacin of books, both authors and publishers have been divided by the dilemma, revolutionizing the concept of copyright and access to culture. "The universal library as told by (Jorge Luis) Borges starts to become reality," says Bondi. In the U.S., opponents of the Google project to digitize millions of books in February filed suit in a New York court to reject the agreement 2008 with publishers and authors. Among those who challenge the agreement includes the Justice Department as the United States as Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, Google competitors who joined the group "Alliance for a open book." Following the demands undertaken 2005 by the Authors Guild and the association of American Publishers (AAP), Google pledged in October 2008 to deliver 45 million dlares to pay authors and publishers whose works are digitized without authorization. Also promised to create a fund of 30 million to guarantee income for authors who agree to digitize their books.