Photographers, Artists, and Designers Sue Google

Elsewhere in legal news, Google is being sued for copyright infringement by a long list of photographers, artists, graphic designers, and the professional organizations in which they gather. The class-action lawsuit, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, relates to Google’s digitization of millions of books and other publications for its Google Books Library Project. According to the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), the lead plaintiff in the suit, Google is illegally scanning materials that contain copyrighted images and displaying them to the public without regard to the rights of the visual creators.