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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 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.

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday September 21, 2005 - 11:24 AM | Category: Books | © 2005 SF Signal

It's about time that someone knock those uppity-Google people down a few notches and who better to do it than the copyright Nazis -- maybe the Recording Industry Ass. of America can join in too...

Posted by Peter on Thursday September 22, 2005 at 12:16 PM

JUST LIKE PEOPLE ARE TAKING FROM THE MUSIC BUSSINESS NOW THE HEAT IS ON THE BOOKS. WHATS NEXT. ARE WE GOING TO START COPYING PERSONAL DIARIES WITHOUT PERMISSION RIGHT OUT OF OUR CHILDRENS HANDS. THOSE GOOGLE JERKS

Posted by tammy on Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 12:02 PM

What's next? Well, hopefully somebody will learn to use a spell checker and find out that a computer keyboard works in more than just the CAPS LOCK mode!

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 1:29 PM

Now, now, Fred. Who knows? Maybe that's the way Tammy really talks.

Posted by John on Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 2:09 PM

Sure did "smell" like a posting from an enraged member of the RIAA or Sony, though, didn't it?

Posted by FredKiesche on Tuesday November 22, 2005 at 7:31 PM