"Lost behind the headline-grabbing announcements at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was Google's decision to march on with its controversial Google Book Search project (previously known as Google Print) in the face of stiff resistance from rights-holder groups in the US."

"Google has reportedly responded to the action for copyright infringement brought by the Author's Guild, which represents more than 8,000 writers, by telling a judge that the writers do not own the rights they claim, that Google has a licence to reproduce the works in question and that the suit is prohibited by the US's First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Association of American Publishers has brought a separate action against Google."

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