Four educational publishers sue Google, accusing it of promoting pirated copies of their textbooks and ignoring copyright infringement notices (@blakebrittain / Reuters) https://t.co/Gt0StseDBu https://t.co/2tB1Q9cWOs
Educational publishers told a US court that Google has ignored thousands of copyright-infringement notices and continues to profit from the sale of pirated digital versions of textbooks advertised through its dominant search engine https://t.co/WLf6YrapmP https://t.co/NENjJ9XfDU
Several major textbook publishers sued Google in New York federal court, alleging it profits from ads for counterfeit book websites. https://t.co/dhHuA2Ioom
Google has been sued by several major educational publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Elsevier, over allegations that the tech giant promotes pirate copies of their textbooks. The lawsuit, filed in a US court in New York, accuses Google of profiting from ads for counterfeit book websites and ignoring thousands of copyright-infringement notices. The publishers claim that Google continues to profit from the sale of pirated digital versions of textbooks advertised through its dominant search engine.