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Authors Guild Sues Google Over Print Program
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.
yep, print it on the backside of the title page of each book. /book/pages[1..231] noscan noindex nofollow
old in Oxford means pre 1600 ie before anyone went to your country from Europe and killed the natives.
Typical Oxford whippersnapper. Here in York, `old' means before the Vikings got here. I quite like the modern architecture of the Minster, though.Evidence suggests the Welsh were over there, not murdering people, in the first millenium. Bloody young Norman upstarts.
I've owned several web pages which Google has copied onto their servers via indexing and Google cache.
They never asked me for permission, and I'm pretty sure they all contained the footer (c) Me, All Rights Reserved.
In fact, the entire web is copyrighted by numerous authors and corporations, and I'm pretty sure Google has never asked anyone for permission.
Google can't even hide behind the mantra of not being able to micromanage automatic indexing, because the ENTIRE WEB is copyrighted in some form or another.
I'm going to completely disregard that my web pages increased in value by Google announcing their presence to the world, and rather sue them for copyright infringement. I'm also suing Microsoft, Yahoo and Altavista.
Anyone for a class action lawsuit?
Typical ivory tower crusties.
Here in Colchester, 'old' means before Boudica kicked Roman arse :-)
You call this old! In southern France, old means before homo sapiens painted caves and kicked some Neanderthal arses!
America has still an Authors' Guild? Cool!
Now, I just wonder why they asked the Lawyers Guild to sort things out with the Clacks Guild, "Vetinari's method" being that of letting Guild to enforce law by themselves by using, at option, a pointy stick or a big club.
But perhaps it's just a --ing polite way to say they don't --ing want the books to be read by everybody. Just from those willing to pay some good dollars the right people.
Anyway, I'll just believe that Google will bring the Authors' Guild kicking and screaming out of the Century of the Fruitbat.
(Sorry for the useless Discworld parallel, but I couldn't resist anyway.)
-- "The Truth shall make ye fret'"
Mr. Goodmountain doing one of the first movable typo.
42.
Must resist ... beating the dead horse...
1. Google received billions from their IPO.
2. Sue Google for infringement.
3. Profit!!!
It felt good to that out of my system.
Well, out here in the Olduvai Gorge...
err.. It's library not "libarary", I would do a spell/grammar check before writing a letter to a guild of authors, who will probably judge your worth by spelling/grammar aptitude. I wouldn't be surprised if they just send your letter back marked with red pen. ;)
The parent (and its parent) made the exact same joke as everyone else, and yet got modded offtopic
Exactly. The correct mod would be `redundant'. We are `offtopic'.You obviously know nothing about copyright law, so how about you just shut the fuck up? I am so sick of these knee-jerk idiotic statements from people on Slashdot. Fuck you. Fuck all of you.
It's getting too difficult to track. Maybe Slashdot should add a page telling us what our opinion should be about a particular product/company that day.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
Maybe they could write a robots.txt file on the inside front cover?
But Google is a corporation! Doesn't everyone who works for a corporation eat babies?
Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".
"If I want to burn his book, I don't need permission either."
Well you do need permission from the person that owns the copy of the book you wish to burn!
Now that we have Google Earth... I just leave my books outside. Scan times do seem to be a bit slow though. Have to move the books inside when it rains.
Shut up you pomo fuctard!
I hate you and all that you stand for!