Rift between Google and Photographers

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Are there any issues that a photographer may be facing in the exercise of his profession? Matter of fact, I think below is one of those (possible) issues.

Actually, this one is latest on the news. And it is involving Google. This is big, I suppose.

It says:

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"The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and several other visual artist groups are suing Google over its digitization of of millions of books, claiming copyright infringement related to images within the books. The photographers initially wanted to be included in the authors' and publishers' class action suit, but filed their own suit after that request was denied. Google and others assert that images are only included in the digital copies when permission has been obtained from the copyright holder."
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