[Web4lib] Writers sue Google

[Sloan, Bernie]

First it was publisher groups complaining about the Google Print Library
Project. Now authors have joined the act:

"Three authors filed suit against Google yesterday contending that the
company's program to create searchable digital copies of the contents of
several university libraries constituted 'massive copyright
infringement'... Each of the plaintiffs claim copyright to at least one
literary work that is in the library of the University of Michigan,
according to the suit."

Wyatt, Edward. Writers Sue Google, Accusing It of Copyright Violation.
New York Times, September 21, 2005.

Full text at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/technology/21book.html
(registration may be required).

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu