[Web4lib] Writers sue Google

[Claire Rivers]

Here's the news from the Google Blog

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-print-and-authors- 
guild.html

Claire Rivers
claire.rivers at mac.com


On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Sloan, Bernie wrote:

> 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
>
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