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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 aussie_a · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I love that. The parent (and its parent) made the exact same joke as everyone else, and yet got modded offtopic. Way to go mods.