For Immediate Release

October 25, 2005

Contact: Judith Platt
Ph: 202-220-4551
Email: jplatt@publishers.org

International Publishers Group and PEN USA Declare Google Library Violates Copyright Law

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) welcomed a Joint Declaration issued in Frankfurt by the International Publishers Association and PEN USA reasserting the fundamental principle that the author of a creative work has the sole right to choose whether and how the work can be used, and declaring Google, through its Print Library Project, to be “in breach of existing copyright law.”

The Declaration asserted that the two organizations are “alarmed about the deliberate and continued disregard of the interests and concerns that they and their members have repeatedly raised with Google regarding the operation of the Google Print Library Project.”

“We welcome this declaration showing that our concerns, as spelled out in the lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on October 20,  are shared by colleagues all over the world,” said AAP President and CEO Pat Schroeder.

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