Many predicted that the copyright issues that surround Google's library book scanning project would end up in court. Today those predictions came true. This afternoon, the 8000 member Authors Guild and three individual authors, including a former Poet Laureate of the United States, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against Google over the Google Library book scanning project which is part of Google Print. From the news release: 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....This is a plain...

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