Google Print Outrages Publisher Groups

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We've talked a great deal about Google Print in the past, but it just keeps on hitting the headlines, and as more publisher groups vent their outrage with Google, the more it will surely continue.

"Google, an enormously successful company, claims a sweeping right to appropriate the property of others for its own commercial use, unless it is told, case by case and instance by instance, not to," the AAUP board said in a statement. "In our view this contradicts both law and common sense."

Emphasis mine. I've said that exact same thing (without the eloquence), as have many others, for some time about Google Print. As Battelle points out "this sure sounds like a lawsuit is the next step, if Google does not do more to appease them" - though he's still rooting for GOOG on this. He's got a book to promote though bless 'im heh...