Google Victory

Google Just Scored a Major Victory Against US Authors

Thu-Huong Ha | April 18, 2016

A ten-year long case against Google has finally seen its end.
Today, the US Supreme Court announced it had declined to hear Authors Guild v Google, a pivotal case that pitted book authors’ rights against the tech giant’s desire to build a massive digital library. In doing so the court quietly sided with Google, agreeing with previous rulings that its massive book scanning project is legal.

Source: http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docketfiles/15-849.htm

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