Giant Digital Library Faces Set Backs As Google Is Sued

Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google are going to settle the landmark settlement of Authors Guild v. Google. March 31, 2011 will be the deadline for authors to claim their books and inserts to be eligible for cash payments for their digitization.

On the back of this settlement announcement, Google is to face yet another set back for it's giant digital library and bookstore project. The American Society of Media Photographers and other visual arts groups are planning on filing a class-action law suit against Google. They assert that the digitalization and distribution of their materials through Google as part of this digital library project amounts to large-scale copyright infringement.

There is a proposed settlement of 125 million dollars, which, if approved, would allow Google to make digital distributions of out-of-print books.