Congressional Hearing For Google Print?

Google's list of allies in support of its massive Google Print for Libraries project is getting shorter by the day. Yesterday, the century-old National Consumers League sent a letter to Congress urging the government body to set up public hearings on the matter. Voicing concerns of copyright, fairness to authors, "cultural selectivity," exclusion, and censorship, the letter praises Google's intentions before calling the search company's actions "a straightforward violation of Federal Law." Sent to the offices of Sen. Lamar Smith (R, TX), Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Chairman, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R, UT), Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Chairman, the NCL was also sure Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page received copies. "This issue was settled by the United States Supreme Court in its 2001 decision in American Association of Publishers, and almost the entire