Monday, November 02, 2009
Google Infringement
New York Times writer Miguel Helft wrote an article entitled, "Google Settles Suite over Book Scanning." The article explains how copyright lawsuits against Google have forced them to pay $125 million dollars to settle.
The charges were brought on by authors as well as publishers like McGraw-Hill Companies.
They claimed Googles plans to digitize and show snippets of in-copyright books as well as the sharing of digital copies of books was not permissible under copyright law.
If approved the expansion of online access to millions of in-copyright books would be available through googles book search program. The $125 million will be set up for book registry, to resolve existing claims, and cover legal fees.
