Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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The Association of American Publishers said Wednesday that five of its members had filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google because it is scanning books from top research libraries for the Google Library Project. The publishers' group is coordinating and paying for the lawsuit. In their complaint, filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, the McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, the Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons charge that Google is infringing copyright to "further its own commercial purposes." The publishers ask the court to forbid Google from reproducing their works and to require Google to delete or destroy records already scanned. The only remuneration the publishers ask is that Google pay their legal fees. Another organization, the Authors Guild, and three writers filed a similar complaint last month. Chronicle of Higher Education 10/20/05 http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005102001t.htm
Posted by P. Kaufman at October 20, 2005 7:33 AM
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