Chinese copyright society opposes Google
By Paul Biba
According the The Bookseller the China Written Works Copyright Society is urging writers to oppose the Google book settlement. You can find their website, in Chinese, here. The Society has said that it would fight for the authors with legal action if necessary.
According to the Society, 18,000 books from 570 Chinese writers have been scanned and included in the Google archive without permission and it is calling for China’s National Copyright Administration to push the US government on the issue.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Seeing some Chinese complaining about outsiders making illegal copies of some of their intellectual property just cracks me up for some reason.