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What The Google Books Judgment Means For Authors

What The Google Books Judgment Means For Authors

Dec 23, 2013

On November 14, 2013, Circuit Judge Denny Chin ended a long battle over a copyright dispute between Google the search engine and The Authors Guild by siding with Google. The Guild and some of its members sued Google in a class action lawsuit late in 2005 in response to Google scanning their books for its Google Books and online library projects. Judge Chin...