A Chinese author Mian Mian launched the country's first civil lawsuit against Internet giant Google over its digital web library, her lawyer said.

Mian Mian, 39, alleges that Google is guilty of copyright infringement for scanning her third novel "Acid Lovers" into its controversial system without her permission. She is seeking 61,000 yuan (8,900 dollars) in damages.

Google China's spokeswoman was not immediately available to comment.

According to the China Written Works Copyright Society, tens of thousands of books by hundreds of Chinese authors have been added to Google Books, the US Internet giant's project to digitise millions of books and post them online.

The society is currently in talks with Google to try to resolve the outstanding copyright issues, and agree terms for compensation, but so far, the Chinese writers have refused the offers made by the US firm.

The Google Books project has also raised objections from authors and publishers in the United States, France, Germany and other countries.

Google reached a settlement with US authors and publishers last year over a copyright infringement suit filed in 2005.

Earlier this month, a French court told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages.