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Article: Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing 'Massive Copyright Infringement'.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 20, 2005
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States are filing a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that the $90 billion search engine and advertising juggernaut is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.
Through its Library program, Google is reproducing works still under the protection of copyright as well as public domain works from the collection of the University of ...