Copyright Suit Against Google for Book Project
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005According to reports, the Author’s Guild accused Google in a lawsuit of copyright infringement based on Google’s plan to books in the public domain for commercial use without permission.
Google announced its initiative last year, under which it plans to scan all or portions of collections of various libraries and make those texts searchable on Google.
Not directly an open source software issue, but illustrates issues of fair use, and whether or not a Creative Commons type of license for printed matter is a good idea.