Lawsuit filed today on the Google libraries project, with extraordinary counsel (no doubt) on both sides. The publishers assert copyright violation by Google for re-publishing digital versions of their copyrighted works that are kept in libraries such as the University of Michigan’s.
Recently, adult publisher Perfect 10 sued Google for copyright infringement. (I posted a lightly redacted version of the complaint along with an early analysis of the lawsuit, here). Now, word is that Perfect 10 has asked the judge for a preliminary injunction against Google. Perfect 10 has also sued Amazon.com. These lawsuits, along with similar … Read more
I’m puzzling over the New York Times article on google and Jim Moore’s Second Superpower paper in this morning’s Week in Review. Jim’s very short paper, with no footnotes and little more than an intriguing idea in its first-cut articulation, clearly grabbed the attention of the online world for a time. And google rewarded it with a high … Read more