Google has been taken to court and sued for alleged copyright infringement by a Mian Mian, a Chinese author who has attracted a large following of youth by writing about life with drugs among prostitutes, gangsters and failed artists. Google expected to face off with the first Chinese writer to sue the company for its efforts to create a vast digital library of books at a court hearing in Beijing on 29 December, 2009.
Mian Mian filed a complaint over the internet giant scanning her works without permission on 23 October 2009. She is asking for Google to apologize for scanning part of her works, delete the scanned content from its digital library and pay approximately $8,900 in compensation.
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