For Immediate Release

September 21, 2005

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

AAP Board Responds to Authors Guild Google Suit

The Board of Directors of the Association of American Publishers  issued the following statement in response to the announcement last night  that the Authors Guild has filed a class-action suit in federal district court in New York charging that Google's plan to digitize books under copyright without prior permission of the rights holder as part of its Print Library Project represents "massive copyright infringement." 

"We fully support the Author's Guild's motives and share the important concerns raised in the suit. We hope that Google will resume the dialogue we began several months ago in an effort to seek an acceptable approach to the treatment of copyrighted works."

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