Google Accused of Copyright Infringement
Well, I can't say I didn't see this one coming a mile away, but as a published author myself, I can't say that I agree...
An AP newswire article by Larry Neumeister, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
An organization of more than 8,000 authors accused Google Inc. Tuesday of "massive copyright infringement," saying the powerful Internet search engine cannot put its books in the public domain for commercial use without permission.
"The authors' works are contained in certain public and university libraries and have not been licensed for commercial use," The Author's Guild Inc. said in the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The lawsuit asked the court to block Google from copying the books so the authors would not suffer irreparable harm by being deprived of the right to control reproduction of their works. It sought class-action status on behalf of anyone or any entity with a copyright to a literary work at the University of Michigan library.
The Author's Guild, a New York-based non-profit organization, said its primary purpose as the nation's largest organization of book authors was to advocate for and support the copyright and contractural interests of published writers.
posted by Fergie @ 9/20/2005 04:00:00 PM
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