AllThingsD » illustrators http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Google Sued by Photographers Alleging Copyright Infringement http://allthingsd.com/20100407/google-sued-by-photographers-alleging-copyright-infringement/ http://allthingsd.com/20100407/google-sued-by-photographers-alleging-copyright-infringement/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:41:47 +0000 Eric Savitz http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=23656 Google (GOOG) has been hit with a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court in New York City by a number of photography trade groups concerning 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.”

The parties filing the suit include the American Society of Media Photographers, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, Professional Photographers of America, and a number of individual photographers and illustrators.

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