A lawsuit filed against Google Inc. last week by a radical of publishers allege right of first publication violation over its ambitious program to scan and digitize thousands of books was paint as a unremarkable part of doing business by Eric Schmidt , Google ’s primary executive ship’s officer , during a actor’s line in Tokyo on Tuesday .

Schmidt , address the Global Management Forum league , told the largely Nipponese interview that such lawsuits are a daily hazard for a troupe like Google .

“ Google has as its commission to organize all of the world ’s selective information . Not everyone agree with that and in the American sound system if you discord you get sue , so we get sued everyday , ” he state . “ [ It ’s ] probably not very common in Japan but it ’s routine in the United States . ”

The suit was file last calendar week by The Association of American Publishers ( AAP ) and seeks a judgment that Google ’s scanning of books is an infringement of copyright . The Google Print program , which is already in public testing , is building a searchable database of thousands of books . Visitors tothe Web sitecan running game searches on books that have already been skim and then see a copy of the relevant page of the book .

“ Well , last week among the many suit were a serial of suits about our construction of a digital card catalogue , ” Schmidt said . “ We are building an index of all of the books in the world and in Holy Order to do that we have to scan them . Some publishers have decided that ’s not okay . [ It ] makes no sense to me because most book are not read , sorry , and when they are copied and indexed masses will be able to buy them , ” he said .

Schmidt underline to his consultation that the inspection and repair does n’t allow user to read the entire text of the account book online and also supply links to online book shop class where it can be purchased and other detail about the book that would enable it to be order from a local retail stock .

“ We are not let end users to make a copy of the book or even see a page . That is very authoritative . you’re able to not utilize Google to take a book and make a copy . you could use Google to find the Christian Bible and buy it , ” he said .

Google declined a request for an consultation with Schmidt .