https://omid.dev/tags/lawsuit/Recent content in Lawsuit on Omid FarhangHugo -- 0.152.2en-US2025 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:50:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/04/09/google-gets-sued-by-photographers-over-google-books/Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:50:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2010/04/09/google-gets-sued-by-photographers-over-google-books/<p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S79hoq66B5I/AAAAAAAAB2w/KdZhynmxASA/s1600/library-books.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vaUVXcmC3OI/S79hoq66B5I/AAAAAAAAB2w/KdZhynmxASA/s1600/library-books.jpg" alt="" /> </a></p> <p>.<a href="http://books.google.com/">Google Books</a>, although an admittedly noble project as Google has framed it, is also a beleaguered one. Attacked first by writers and publishers, the immense online library is now the subject of a lawsuit brought by several professional photographers’ organizations.</p> <p>The American Society of Media Photographers, one of these groups, issued a <a href="http://asmp.org/articles/press-release-10-04-07.html">statement</a> today saying, “The suit[…] relates to Google’s illegal scanning of millions of books and other publications containing copyrighted images and displaying them to the public without regard to the rights of the visual creators.”</p>