UM: Copyright Lawsuit

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The Guardian reports on a lawsuit that’s been filed by an international group of authors against five universities – including the University of Michigan – for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the universities received unauthorized scans of 7 million copyright-protected books from Google, which were then collected in a repository called HathiTrust, another defendant in the lawsuit. HathiTrust is a partnership of universities and research institutions that is administered and partially funded by UM. The lawsuit refers to these actions as “one of the largest copyright infringements in history,” according to The Guardian. [Source]