The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children’s book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its作者協會和林肯傳記，兒童圖書的作者，和一名前桂冠詩人的美國提起集體訴訟，今天在聯邦法院在曼哈頓對Google超過其未經授權的掃描和複印書籍通過其 Google Library Google圖書館 program.程序。 The suit alleges that Google is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.該訴訟聲稱， Google是在從事大規模的侵犯版權的不惜犧牲的權利，個別作家。

Through its Library program, Google is reproducing works still under the protection of copyright as well as public domain works from the collection of the University of Michigan’s library.通過其圖書館計劃， Google是複製工程仍下的著作權保護，以及公共領域的作品從收集密西根大學的圖書館。 Google has agreements with four academic libraries — those of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and the University of Michigan — and with the New York Public Library to create digital copies of substantial parts of their collections and to make those collections available for searching online. Google已協議與4學術圖書館-那些斯坦福大學，哈佛大學，牛津大學和密西根大學-與紐約公共圖書館建立數字化複製大量的部分藏書，使這些藏品，供搜索在線。

“It’s not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.” “這是不能達到Google或任何其他比作者，合法擁有者，這些著作權，以決定是否及如何他們的作品將被複製” 。

The individual plaintiffs are Herbert Mitgang, a former New York Times editorial writer and the author of fiction and nonfiction books like “The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln,”; Betty Miles, award-winning author of books for children and young adults, and the co-author of “Just Think,”; and Daniel Hoffman, the author and editor of volumes of poetry, translation, and literary criticism, including “Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves and Muir”.個別原告是赫伯特mitgang ，前紐約時報社論作家和作者的小說和散文的書籍如“火熱的審判：一個生活的林肯， ” ;貝蒂英里，獲獎作者的書籍，為兒童和年輕成人身上，和共同作者， “試想想， ” ;和丹尼爾霍夫曼，作者和編輯卷的詩歌，翻譯和文學批評，其中包括“野蠻知識：神話，詩歌葉芝，墳墓和繆爾” 。

Link:鏈接： Authors Guild website作者協會網站

When will they realize what Google is doing is online equivalent of what Libraries have been doing for centuries?當將他們認識到什麼樣的Google是做的是在線相當於什麼樣的圖書館已做百年？

This so-called Authors Guild is very litigious by nature.這個所謂的作者協會是非常訴訟的性質。 They have fought他們打 se硒 ve維生素E ral鋁回收率 class action lawsuits recently including against集體訴訟，最近包括對 New York Times紐約時報 . 。 Unfortunately for Google they appear to have good success record.可惜的Google ，他們似乎有良好的成功紀錄。