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The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors,the Quebec Writers Union, and eight individual authors have fileda copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court againstHathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University ofCalifornia, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, andCornell University. Plaintiff authors include children's bookauthor and illustrator Pat Cummings, novelists Angelo Loukakis,Roxana Robinson, Daniele Simpson, and Fay Weldon, poet Andre Roy,Columbia University professor and Shakespeare scholar JamesShapiro, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winningbiographer T.J. Stiles.The universities obtained from Google unauthorized scans of anestimated 7 million copyright-protected books, the rights towhich are held by authors in dozens of countries. Theuniversities have pooled the unauthorized files in a repositoryorganized by the University of Michigan called HathiTrust.Via liblicensehttp://blog.authorsguild.org/2011/09/12/authors-guild-australian-society-of-authors-quebec-writers-union-sue-five-u-s-universitiesSee alsohttp://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/authors-guild-sues-hathitrust-5-universities-over-digitized-books/36178?s=hathitrustUpdate:http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/158962910