Lit Agents Back Google Lawsuits - 10/21/2005 - Publishers Weekly
Lit Agents Back Google Lawsuits - 10/21/2005 - Publishers Weekly:
Google is having a bad week, at least in print. Two days after the AAP filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the controversial Google Print for Library program, lit agents jumped on the Google Library-bashing bandwagon.The Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) released an open letter Thursday saying it supported both the AAP’s lawsuit and the similar suit filed last month by the Authors Guild. In the letter, addressed to Google chairman and CEO Eric E. Schmidt, AAR president Gail Hochman said her organization believes Google’s digitization project poses “an egregious violation” of copyright law and that it is “an affront to the rights and integrity” of both authors and their books.
Hochman said that the AAR would, in a show of support, offer assistance to any of its agent- or author-clients “resisting and opposing Google’s Library project.”
Somehow, having an agent on your side doesn’t feel quite as inspiring as the agents probably think …
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