US Authors Guild Sues University Libraries

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With the Google Settlement in tatters and the case expected to soon head back to litigation, The Authors Guild today announced that it has doubled down on its infringement claims by suing a consortium of university libraries over its digital initiative known as HathiTrust. According to the complaint, filed today in New York, The Author's Guild, along with the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement against the consortium, led by the University of Michigan, but which now numbers more than 50 partners, and nearly 10 million volumes.
 

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