14 DAY TRIAL // Although Google announced the arrest of the book scanning operations within Google Print Library Project, due to the criticisms coming from editors and libraries, the issues concerning copyrights are far from being over.
Yesterday, the Author's Guild, a professional organization representing the interests of 8,000 writers, filed a lawsuit against Google Print, accusing the company of flagrant copyright infringement.
Author's Guild is trying to obtain a court order that would block the Google Print project, even though, Paul Aiken, executive director of Author's Guild, admitted that there was no hard evidence that Google infringed the copyrights of any of the Guild's member.
In response, Google made an official statement in which it says that it doesn't plan to infringe the copyrights and that all the editors who want to be a part of the Google Print project can choose the way in which their books will be scanned.
For the books Google doesn't own the copyrights to, the search engine will offer only some phrases and links which will lead the users to the online libraries.
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