Eleven photography and graphic arts organizations and individual illustrators and photographers have hit Google Inc. with a copyright infringement class action over the company’s ongoing project to digitize the world’s books.

The American Society of Media Photographers Inc. v. Google Inc. , filed on April 7 in the Southern District of New York, claims the company’s Google Book Search project involves massive infringement of copyrighted images. The plaintiffs seek an injunction against the company and a declaratory judgment that the company infringed the plaintiffs’ and class members copyrights.

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