Google Torts
Last year, Google made big news at the Frankfurt Book Fair when it announced plans to launch its Google Print program, which would see copies of books scanned so the content could be searched online. From the start, there have been a lot of people who have had big concerns with this plan, but the story took a more serious turn this week, again in Frankfurt. This time, five huge publishers — McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons — announced that they were jointly filing a lawsuit over the Google Print for Libraries program.
Writes Edward Wyatt in the International Herald-Tribune: “Patricia Schroeder, president of the Association of American Publishers, a trade group, said the publishers tried to negotiate with Google over their differences, to no avail. She said the publishers wanted to file the lawsuit before the Nov. 1 deadline that Google set to resume scanning works under its Library program. This summer, Google put the program on hold to allow copyright holders to opt out of the program by telling Google that they did not want specific works included in the library collections to be scanned.”
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