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Authors Guild Sues Google Over Print Program

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the calling-evil-down-on-do-no-evil dept.

heavy snowfall writes to tell us that The Authors Guild has filed a class action lawsuit against Google. The lawsuit claims that Google's scanning and digitizing of library books as a part of the Google Print Project constitutes "massive copyright infringement". In addition to the lawsuit The Authors Guild has also issued a press release to explain its actions.

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  1. Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And the actions of for-profit companies are always bad, and the actions of anyone else are always good. It doesn't matter whether the ostensibly non-profit group has commercial interests at heart, or where the public benefit lies, or even what's happening, really. If one of the groups involved is a for-profit company, surely what they're doing is in the wrong.

    Whatever, fuck off. You are the only one having a knee-jerk reaction here.

  2. Re:Before everybody has a knee-jerk reaction ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I just wanted to shake (some) people out of the pre-defined position that "Google are the good ones so they must be right"

    No, you didn't. You just wanted karma.