News at Eleven: American writers' body the Authors Guild,

the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois and eight individual authors--[Fay] Weldon, [T.J.] Stiles, children's author Pat Cummings, novelists Angelo Loukakis, Roxana Robinson and Danièle Simpson, poet André Roy and Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro--have filed suit in Manhattan against the universities of Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Indiana and Cornell. They claim the universities obtained unauthorised scans of 7m copyright-protected books from Google--by authors including Simone de Beauvoir, Italo Calvino, Günter Grass, Michel Houellebecq, Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Müller and Haruki Murakami--and pooled the files in a repository called HathiTrust, which is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit [PDF].

from The Guardian: Writers sue US university libraries for copyright infringement

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