Google Must Face Trademark Claims Brought by Publishers
Although a district judge in New York dismissed claims by publishers that the promotion of sites selling pirate copies of textbooks through Google AdSense constituted a breach of copyright, the lawsuit is not over. The judge said that claims that the ads infringed the publishers’ trademarks could proceed to trial. Key to those claims is that the ads featured images of textbook covers including the publishers’ names, such as McGraw Hill and Elsevier.