AAP told Google is 'cavalier' with copyright by Microsoft

Tom Rubin, associate general counsel for Microsoft is to tell the Association of American Publishers, which counts Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons as members, that Google is "cavalier" in its approach to copyright. Rubin has also shared his speech contents and thoughts with the Financial Times newspaper.

Rubin will tell his audience that Google is "exploiting" books, films, music and television programmes without copyright owners permission. "Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the back of other people's content are raking in billions through advertising and IPOs," he will say to the New York audience.

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Highlighting the controversial library digitisation project which includes Oxford's Bodleian, Rubin says the project "systematically violates copyright, deprives authors and publishers of an important avenue for monetising their works and, in doing so, undermines incentives to create," the FT reports. The newspaper also reports that Google is breaching copyright law because, "it has bestowed upon itself the unilateral right to make entire copies of copyrighted books."