Google library push faces lawsuit by U.S. authors group
21st Sep 2005, 01:56 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Authors Guild, a U.S. writers advocacy group, sued Google Inc. on Tuesday in federal court, alleging that the Web search leader's bid to digitise the book collections of major libraries infringes on individual author's copyrights.
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