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Internet Archive Violated Copyrights With Digital Book Lending, US Judge Rules
The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that operates an online library, violated the copyrights of four major US publishers, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. While many of the books scanned and lent to readers were in the public domain, 3.6 million are protected by valid copyrights, and the publishers sued the non-profit in 2020 over 127 book...
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Internet Archive Sued by Publishers Over Scanning of Books
Four of the US' biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favourites as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Google's Book-Scanning Project Legal, US Appeals Court
A US appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue.
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Google triumphs over authors in long-running US book-scanning lawsuit
The judge accepted Google's argument that its scanning of more than 20 million books, and making "snippets" of text available online, constituted "fair use" under US copyright law.
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Internet Archive Violated Copyrights With Digital Book Lending, US Judge Rules
The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that operates an online library, violated the copyrights of four major US publishers, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. While many of the books scanned and lent to readers were in the public domain, 3.6 million are protected by valid copyrights, and the publishers sued the non-profit in 2020 over 127 book...
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Internet Archive Sued by Publishers Over Scanning of Books
Four of the US' biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has illegally offered more than a million scanned works to the public, including such favourites as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Google's Book-Scanning Project Legal, US Appeals Court
A US appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue.
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Google triumphs over authors in long-running US book-scanning lawsuit
The judge accepted Google's argument that its scanning of more than 20 million books, and making "snippets" of text available online, constituted "fair use" under US copyright law.
