Google accused of piracy in China

China also has something to say about Google Books and accuse the U.S. giant for having sat on the rights of its authors, some political leaders.

The sling anti-Google Books does not know a priori boundaries. Already criticized in countries where a mutual agreement must still be approved for the Justice, the scanning service and delivery of online books was tackle from Europe. Main criticism, that of having to scan everything-goes into the fund for libraries not really interested only subsequently to the issue of copyright.

In this game, just under 18 000 Chinese books were included in Google Books, and apparently illegally. This is just to inform the company of copyright for works written in China. And the case could become highly sensitive since among the works singled out, some were written by Chinese officials.

"Google has violated a widely accepted rule in copyright that requires permission and payment of fees before scanning, and use of copyrighted works. [...] None of the authors that we contacted told us have been Google advised by the use of their work "

Said the Director-General of the society. Failing amicable agreement, legal proceedings are contemplated.

In the United States, the Digital Library project Google has been the subject of conciliation with the representatives of authors and publishers. This agreement provides for payment of $ 125 million to fund the registry rights on the books that should enable the beneficiaries, whose works have been placed online via Google Books without their explicit consent to obtain compensation. A revised agreement must be resubmitted to the U.S. Justice November 9.

Recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, strongly criticizing Google Books, declaring that "copyright should be protected on the Internet. [...] We therefore reject the scan if it does not include such protection , as does Google. "