RENEE MONTAGNE, host: NPR's business news starts with artists filing suit against Google.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: The American Society of Media Photographers, and other groups representing visual artists, plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google today. They charge that Google's plan to create a vast, online library by digitizing millions of books amounts to a large-scale copyright infringement -that according to the New York Times.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Meanwhile, Google is waiting to get approval of a settlement with authors and book publishers over the same issue. The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers first raised concerns about Google's Library Project back in 2005.
The American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google Wednesday, according to media reports. The groups charge that Google's plan to create a vast online library by digitizing millions of books amounts to a large-scale copyright infringement.