[ NNSquad ] Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory

http://t.co/SiLJ9Mfg  (ars technica)

   "The Author's Guild has suffered another major setback in its fight to
    stop Google's ambitious book-scanning project. The Guild lost a key
    ally when Google settled with a coalition of major publishers last
    week. Now a judge has ruled that the libraries who have provided
    Google with their books to scan are protected by copyright's fair use
    doctrine. While the decision doesn't guarantee that Google will
    win-that's still to be decided in a separate lawsuit-the reasoning of
    this week's decision bodes well for Google's case."

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