Google Gets Sued The Authors Guild has joined with individual authors Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman (poet laureate of the US in 1973-74) to file suit against Google in a Manhattan Federal court yesterday over their Google Print for Libraries program. The parties seek class action status and allege in their complaint that Google “is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers,” for “its own commercial use and the use of others.” Google has claimed its program constitutes protected “fair use” and replied yesterday, “We regret that this group has chosen […]
