Google Responds to Authors Guild Lawsuit

Phoe6 writes "Google has responded to the Authors' Guild lawsuit of "massive copyright infringement". They point out that the Library Project is 'fully consistent with both the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law and the principles underlying copyright law itself, which allow everything from parodies to excerpts in book reviews.'"

new product

[TedCheshireAcad]

I'm just waiting for Google to release Suegle.

Enter the name of the person/company you want to sue and click "Sue". We'll e-mail the court date to you, along with relevant precedent to your GMail account!

The daily insight

[chris_eineke]

If slashdot can make money off posting dupes, why can't dupes make money off posting on slashdot? ;}

Re:The daily insight

[elbenito69]

If slashdot can make money off posting dupes, why can't dupes make money off posting on slashdot? ;}

Simple. Because this isn't Soviet Russia.

Re:The daily insight

[nacturation]

If slashdot can make money off posting dupes, why can't dupes make money off posting on slashdot? ;}

That's what happens on slashdot.ru
 

Re:Copyright Law

[Austerity Empowers]

My +5 Insightful, Interesting, Informative and Funny post are free.

Now the -1 Troll and -1 Flamebait stuff...that I want money for.

Re:new product

[borawjm]

Suegle results for "Google":

Sorry, nothing for you to see here.

Re:Copyright Law

[StalinsNotDead]

Authors cannot opt-out of the lending library system.

Sure they can.

All they have to do go to every lending library in the world and check out the books they wrote. Then simply not return them.

Re:wrong litigants

[meringuoid]

Why aren't the libraries being sued?

Headline: 'Authors' Guild sues library for lending books to third-party'.

Somehow I can't see that attracting anything resembling good publicity.

Bad Dictionary!

[calyptos]

Apparently the dictionary contains the contents of thousands of books, and they just rearrange a couple words. I think we should all get together and start a class action law suite against the dictionaries of the world for illegally redistributing our work. While we're at it, lets sue them for slander. They called me a "dumb fuck bitch who eats babies on friday mornings". They were a little tricky about saying it, again some of the words were mixed up in different places, but we all know what they meant.

Google... pfft, its dictionaries we need to worry about.

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[LoverOfJoy]

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