Sunday, October 18, 2015

Google wins appeal court ruling over digitizing books

Digitization project 'fair use of the books' content and overall enhances public knowledge'

By Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press Posted: Oct 16, 2015 12:27 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 16, 2015 12:27 PM ET
Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books for a massive online library, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decade long dispute by authors worried that the project would spoil the market for their books. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books for a massive online library, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decade long dispute by authors worried that the project would spoil the market for their books.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed with a judge who concluded that the snippets Google showed customers from its database did not violate copyright laws.
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