Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand met earlier this month with Google vice president David Drummond and expressed his “concern” about the company’s worldwide book-scanning activities.
“Every day we have news from Google saying ‘we have made a deal with such-and-such a record company, or with so-and-so. But we have to be very careful,’” he told France 2 TV last week.
“The content must not fall into private hands,” he said.



