10/24/11

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, CORNELL, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, and INDIANA UNIVERSITY SUED BY AUTHORS GUILD

THIS IS ABOUT DIGITAL COPIES OF BOOKS THAT ARE STILL COPYRIGHTED BY AUTHORS. IT'S A SERIOUS MATTER AND A TEST OF OUR LAWS.

"Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million copyright-protected books they say were scanned without authorization.

The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors and the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois, or UNEQ, joined eight individual authors to file the copyright infringement lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Cornell University."


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