Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing “Massive Copyright Infringement” http://www.authorsguild.org/news/sues_google_citing.htm Google Blog: Google Print and the Authors Guild http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-print-and-authors-guild.html Google sticks its finger in the Wi-Fi Pie http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39152509,00.htm The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis [pdf] http://www.policybandwidth.com/doc/googleprint.pdf U.S. Copyright Office [pdf] http://www.copyright.gov/ This week The Authors Guild, a group that represents 8000 US authors, filed a class action lawsuit against Google Inc. in an attempt to ask for damages and an injunction that will prevent the company from continuing their very ambitious digitization project which began in earnest around one year ago. Many commentators in the world of copyright law and technology were not surprised by this development as The Authors Guild has also been involved in attempting to make online publishers pay royalties to writers whose stories appear in any number of online databases without their express consent. In a concession to general concerns about the nature of their project, Google had announced plans back in August that they would respect the wishes of copyright holders who contacted the company to inform them that they did not want their works included in this digitization project. In yet another interesting development this week, there were rumors around the technology press that Google may be embarking on an extensive plan to build a significant WiFi presence across the country. A spokesperson for Google confirmed that their current test sites are solely limited to two public sites around their corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California. [KMG] The first link will take users to a news article from this Tuesday’s Washington Post which provides detailed coverage of the lawsuit filed by The Authors Guild. The second link leads visitors to the official press release about the lawsuit from the press office of The Authors Guild. The third link leads to the official Google weblog entry on the recent lawsuit. Here visitors can learn about Google’s position on the subject, and peruse a number of relevant external links. The fourth link leads to a news article from Silicon.com that discusses Google’s foray into providing WiFi service. The fifth link leads a compelling commentary and analysis on the Google Print project by Jonathan Band. The sixth and final link leads to the homepage of the U.S. Copyright Office, where visitors can learn about filing copyrights and how to search for copyright records.