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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. Re:Don't know about the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  2. Re:Don't know about the US by Goth+Biker+Babe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Evidence suggests the Welsh were over there, not murdering people, in the first millenium. Bloody young Norman upstarts.

  3. After thinking a little more, I'm suing Google by GauteL · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Don't know about the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Typical ivory tower crusties.

    Here in Colchester, 'old' means before Boudica kicked Roman arse :-)