![]() Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. ![]() Five large publishers, The Authors Guild of America and individual authors brought a class action and a civil lawsuit over copyright infringement for books digitized without authorization including the use of these “snippets”.Īfter a series of legal events - an amended settlement agreement, dismissal of the lawsuit by US Circuit judge in 2013 and further appeals - the judgment appears to be in Google’s favor: Three years after Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page originally launched Google Books in 2002, the company faced legal challenges. ![]() A screenshot of the same snippet (highlighted in yellow), as shown in a book “preview”. ![]()
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