Legal Opinion
Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 14, 2013No. 05 Civ. 8136(DC)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, Circuit Judge.
Since 2004, when it announced agreements with several major research libraries to digitally copy books in their collections, defendant Google Inc. (“Google”) has scanned more than twenty million books. It has delivered digital copies to participating libraries, created an electronic database of books, and made text available for online searching through the use of “snippets.” Many of the books scanned by Google, however, were under copyright, and Google did not obtain permission from the copyright holders for these usages of their copyrighted works. As a…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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