Google (GOOG) has been hit with a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court in New York City by a number of photography trade groups concerning Google’s “illegal scanning of millions of books and other publications containing copyrighted images and displaying them to the public without regard to the rights of the visual creators.”
The parties filing the suit include the American Society of Media Photographers, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association, Professional Photographers of America, and a number of individual photographers and illustrators.
The suit was filed on behalf of those groups by Mishcon de Reya New Tork LLP.
In a release, the groups said they decided to file the class action after they were denied permission to join a currently pending class action filed on behalf of authors in connection with the Google Library Project. The groups say the new suit “goes beyond Google�s Library Project, and includes Google�s other systematic and pervasive infringements of the rights of photographers, illustrators and other visual artists.”
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