Google Books and Copyright Infringement

Google’s effort to scan millions books for giant library books online at Google Books have received another obstacle. The photographers in United States have sued Google at U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), an illustrator and graphic design group, consider Google’s copyright infringement. For photos and illustrations in the book are legally protected their creations.

“Just be justified if someone uses what you create, you then get paid,” said James McGuire, the agency legal counsel, as quoted from the Telegraph, Thursday (08/04/2010). Read more »