Yahoo Denies Google’s Subpoena in Copyright Case
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | November 30, 2006 | Share This
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Zing - Yahoo tells Google that it will NOT provide information to help Google Books in its lawsuit against the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. Sued for copyright infringement, Google subpoenaed Yahoo (along with Microsoft and Amazon) for information about their respective book digitization projects. Both Amazon and Yahoo have denied Google’s request for proprietary information and have filed formal objections to the subpoena.
The Guild and the AAP are suing Google for digitizing books without notifying copyright owners. They claim that book digitization must happen on an “opt-in” basis, with explicit permission given for scanning and indexing. Google on the other hand, is trying to prove that the current opt-out policy is legal. To gather more information for its defense, Google requested that Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft present documents on their own digitization projects.
Amazon was the first to deny Google’s subpoena, claiming that it was beyond the scope of a reasonable request. Today, Yahoo released their own denial, calling the request a “brazen attempt to pry into its trade secrets”. In their public statement, Yahoo says, “There is simply no need for Google to be peering into the minds and computers of Yahoo employees.”
Let the smackdown begin. No word yet from Microsoft.
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