The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal.
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No one knows the precise use Google will make of the intellectual property it has gained by scanning the world's library books, and the truth, as Gleick, an American science writer and member of the Authors Guild, points out, is that the company probably doesn't even know itself
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Google defends its scanning in-copyright books by saying that the online display of in-copyright books is not for commercial use.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
粗略地看;快读;浏览
When you scan written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information.
If a pregnant woman has a scan, a machine using sound waves produces an image of her womb on a screen so that a doctor can see if her baby is developing normally.
VERB
(诗)符合格律,韵节合拍
If a line of a poem does not scan, it is not the right length or does not have emphasis in the right places to match the rest of the poem.
1. the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
2. the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission