Google Print Facing Copyright Woes at Harvard?

The Harvard Crimson is reporting (http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article506429.html that some publishers are objecting to the Google plan to digitize books and put them online.

From the article. "While Google may upload some of Harvard’s copyrighted works, they will not yet be displayed, HUL Director of Publications and Communications Peter Kosewski told The Crimson at the time. But Sally Morris, chief executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers—an international association of over 300 not-for-profit publishers—wrote in an e-mail that even with these safeguards, she and the publishers she represents object to the project, which plans to digitize copyrighted books."

Is there an established benchmark for fair use of a book-sized work of intellectual property?

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