Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying from InternetWeek has legal experts saying that copyright law over indexing books appears to be on Google's side. Of less concern is whether Google actually gets permission to do copying. More weight is applied to the economic impact on the copyright holder and the amount of material used in proportion to the whole. But don't they use all the book? Yes, they scan all the book but they show little without explicit permission (for more, see our past Another Google Book Scanning Debate & Another Publisher Group Objects post). The InternetWeek article is...
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