Individual authors and authors’ groups around the world are suing Cornell and four other universities, alleging that the universities’ library digitization projects are an illegal infringement of copyright law.
Although a U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled against Google's book digitization project, Cornell's partnership with Google in its own library initiatives will not be affected.
Most students would be shocked to know that their professor had broken the law, and even more surprised to find out that they had witnessed it. But as unlikely as that situation seems, it happened on a daily basis last year and probably would have continued this year if the University had not been threatened with a lawsuit.
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