The dispute over the digitization project continues
While Google is still waiting for the approval of its agreement in the copyright dispute over the digitization project Google Books, a new lawsuit is being announced. After the authors and publishers, with whom the company was able to come to an agreement for the time being, photographers and other visual artists such as graphic artists now want to fight a court battle.
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As reported by the New York Times, the American Society of Media Photographers, along with other groups, plans to file a lawsuit against Google today, Wednesday. The digitization project is violating your copyrights, so the allegation, which in many respects resembles the allegations that publishers and authors had brought forward in 2005 in the course of a copyright lawsuit.
Google Books is facing headwinds again (Photo: books.google.com)
Against agreement
The publishers have since agreed to a $ 125 million deal with Google. If this is waved through, the internet company could get going with its digitization project. However, the photographers do not like to see it at all. They had already tried to intervene in the agreement. After this was rejected by the court, they now want to bring their own lawsuit.
"We're looking for justice and fair compensation for visual artists whose work appears in the twelve million books and other publications that Google has illegally scanned to date," said Victor Perlman, general counsel of the American Society of Media Photographers.
The Graphic Artists Guild, the North American Nature Photography Association and the Professional Photographers of America group, as well as individual photographers and illustrators, have also joined the lawsuit. The deal that Google reached with the publishers had largely excluded all of these groups. For legal experts, it comes as little surprise that Google is now grappling with further legal proceedings.(ck)
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