The Anti-Google Mass Book Digitization Campaign Goes Global Posted April 16, 2014 <http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/the-anti-google-mass-book-digitization-...> /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." [...] Continua qui: http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/the-anti-google-mass-book-digitization-...