Authors' Group Sues Google Over Library-Scanning Project

The Authors Guild and three writers last week filed a class-action lawsuit against Google over the company's partnership with academic libraries to scan books and place portions of them online.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that Google's scanning project infringes on the authors' copyrights and will lead to lost profits for authors. Google has said it will scan all the books in at least one of the academic libraries, the

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