Google defeats authors in U.S. book-scanning lawsuit

Via Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc on Thursday received dismissal of a long-operating lawsuit by means of authors who accused the Web search firm of digitally copying millions of books for a web based library with out permission. U.S. Circuit Choose Denny Chin in Big apple established Google's argument that its scanning of greater than 20 million books, and making "snippets" of text to be had online, constituted "truthful use" beneath U.S. copyright legislation. The decision, if it survives an expected appeal, would let Google continue expanding the library, which it mentioned helps readers in finding books they might not in any other case find. Google has estimated it may well owe greater than $three billion if the Authors Guild, an advocacy crew that demanded $750 for each scanned book, prevailed.