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Court Finds In Favor of Libraries In Google Books Affair

Posted by timothy on from the preservation-has-appeal dept.

First time accepted submitter cpt kangarooski writes "While it's not a final victory in the long-running Google Books matter, the related case by the Authors' Guild against the universities working with Google in the digitization project has produced a ruling that their book scanning is a fair use. You can read the opinion here. This bodes well for Google's case, although note that this wasn't directly about them."

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  1. Wired story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    here (but if you want to decipher a 23 page court opinion instead, feel free...)

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