: The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation and the Federation of Indian Publishers, alongside 15 Indian authors and publishers, have filed objections against the Google Book Settlement with a New York District Court. They join a list of Australian, Canadian, Chinese, British, French and German—not to mention American—entities that have already taken issue with the audacious Google project to scan as many of the world’s books as possible to create a universal online library. The ongoing conflict is a classic case of how new technologies have been challenging regulatory frontiers that appeared brand new and up to date just the other day. After all, intellectual property issues didn’t really gain global traction till the last part of the twentieth century, at which point they exploded all across a host of commerce verticals ranging from pharmaceutical to artistic works. In 2004, when Google announced its plans for scanning books, quite a few commentators...