Authors Malcolm Gladwell, J.M. Coetzee, Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey Support Lawsuit Against Google’s Theft of Books Through Digitization
New York, NY- Prize-winning authors, international rights organizations, and legal experts Monday joined the Authors Guild in fighting what they call Google’s dangerous and unprecedented violation of copyright law. They filed eight stinging friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the Guild’s appeal in Authors Guild v. Google, agreeing that Judge Denny Chin’s decision in the case should be overturned. The briefs can be viewed in their entirety at the end of this blog post.
“Google’s ambitions respected no borders,” said Authors Guild
president Roxana Robinson. “Millions of copyrighted books by
authors from every major country were swept in to Google’s
scheme. As the new filings demonstrate, not just authors but
also photographers, visual artists, songwriters, and publishers
around the world find it particularly galling that a wealthy
American company would try to find a way to use their creations
for free.”
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