The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour
of Google in its 11-year legal battle with
an authors group.
The Court said it would not hear an
appeal from the Authors Guild, which
claimed Google breached copyright laws
by scanning books without permission.
The technology giant began the process
in 2004, so it could include extracts in a
searchable database, and it was sued by
the Authors Guild in 2005.
The Supreme Court’s judgement is the
final ruling on the matter.
Fair use
Google’s database of books lets people
search through millions of titles and read
passages and selected pages from them.
While some of the books in the database
are old titles that are no longer protected
by copyright, millions are more recent
publications.
The Authors Guild had argued that the
project undermined authors’ ability to
make money from their work.
Google said its database was a “fair use”
of protected works, describing it as “a
card catalogue for the digital age”.
The firm could have faced billions of
dollars in damages claims from authors if
it had lost the case.
The Authors Guild said it was
“disappointed” that the Supreme Court
would not hear its appeal.
The organisation’s president Roxana
Robinson said: “We believed then and we.....
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Google did nothing wrong. The most I've read is an 8 page preview of a book. There's no way reading a few pages from a thousand page long book would deter me from buying the final product, its like saying a four second clip contains majority of a five minute song.