Google Books is fair use

Posted by amas on Dec 23, 2013 1:29 PM EDT
OUPblog; By Maurizio Borghi and Stavroula Karapapa
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After almost a decade of litigation, on 14 November the Southern District Court of New York has ruled on the class action Authors Guild v Google. Judge Chin, who had rejected in March 2011 the agreement proposing to settle the case, found that the activities carried out in the context of the Google Books project do not infringe copyright. In a nutshell, the ruling affirms that reproducing in-copyright works to make them searchable on the Internet is a fair use under US law.

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