With echoes of at least one of the unresolved fair-use issues in the Google suit, author Elaine Scott sued Scribd.com last week in a Houston Federal District Court, represented by Camara & Sibley, seeking class action status on behalf of “every author who owns a valid registered copyright in a work infringed by Scribd.” The filing accuses the company of believing that “commercial copyright infringement is not illegal, unless and until the injured party discovers and complains of the infringing activity, and (the) infringer fails to respond to such complaints.” They accuse Scribd of having “broken barriers to copyright infringement […]
