Google (GOOG,GOOGL) has been given the okay to continue its books scanning project.
The Google book scanning project is an effort by the company to create a digital catalog of books. It ran into lawsuit over the act, but a panel made up of three judges in New York ruled that what the search engine is doing falls into the realm of fair use, reports Bloomberg.
The Authors Guild claims that the Google book scanning project infringes on author’s rights. It said it was disappointed by the new ruling and there’s a chance it will try to move the case up to the Supreme Court. The book scanning project is intended to provide internet users with a quick way to search books and includes links to where those books can be bought, Bloomberg notes.
“Google’s division of the page into tiny snippets is designed to show the searcher just enough context surrounding the searched term to help her evaluate whether the book falls within the scope of her interest (without revealing so much as to threaten the author’s copyright interests),” Circuit Judge Pierre Leval said in a court document obtained by
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