Book Author: Google Must Pay $ 750 for each book of scanned

A group of authors had threatened Google's book digitization projects through the search engines to the U.S. federal district court in New York. Google is required to pay a total of $ 750 for every book that has been scanned and distributed. When you see more than 20 million books have been scanned by Google, the amount paid google can reach billions of dollars.

Google fails to comply with copyright law is fair, but it was denied him. In an interview with Reuters, Google believes have been enough just to facilitate readers to find an interesting book and know how to borrow or buy the book. Well Google as provide catalogs of books in a digital age / modern today.

Not known at the judge's decision on the lawsuit, but Google has the demand of more than eight thousand authors, Google asked to give compensation to each individual.

origin source  electronista