[Ads-l] News: Supreme Court declines to hear Authors Guild appeal; Google prevails; Google Books database is legal (for now)

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Website: Publishers Weekly
Article: Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Appeal
Author: Andrew Albanese
Date: April 18, 2016

http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/70002-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-appeal.html

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The decision was not unexpected. Legal observers had given the Authors
Guild slim odds at winning a review, given that two separate appeals
panels have unanimously affirmed that Google’s scanning and indexing
of out-of-print books from library shelves was a fair use under U.S.
copyright law.
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