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American Universities sued over “abduction” of “orphaned” books

Posted on Sep 17, 2011

American Universities sued over “abduction” of “orphaned” books

Authors and authors’ groups from Australia, Canada, Britain and the US have filed a copyright infringement suit against the HathiTrust (a consortium of universities) and five US universities – the Universities of Michigan, California and Wisconsin, Cornell University and Indiana University. According to one of the plaintiffs – The Authors Guild – the universities obtained unauthorized scans of an estimated 7 million copyright-protected books (the rights to which are held by authors in dozens of countries) from internet giant Google. The universities have pooled the...

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