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By August 2005, Google stated they would stop scanning in books until November 2005 as to give authors and publisher the opportunity to opt their books out of the program. [7] The publishing industry and writers' groups criticized the project's inclusion of snippets of copyrighted works as infringement.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014), is a United States copyright decision finding search and accessibility uses of digitized books to be fair use. The Authors Guild, other author organizations, and individual authors claimed that the HathiTrust Digital Library had infringed their copyrights through its use of books scanned by Google.
Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over its location-privacy practices. The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 ...
The fact that what Google is doing is even legal speaks to the infancy of legislative and regulatory attempts to manage the technologies we have created. With this punitive move, Google aims to ...
Chuck Champion, president of the California News Publishers Association, another bill sponsor, said in a statement that “Google’s suppression today of California news demonstrates exactly why ...
Google Books director Dan Clancy had talked about Google's vision to open an ebookstore for in-print books in an interview back in July 2009. [8] Then-named TechHive reported in October 2009 that the service would be launched in the first half of 2010, [9] before a Google employee told the media in May that the launch would be in June or July.
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