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Google Books Wins First Round in Copyright Battle

In 2004 Google announced its Google Books project, this entailed scanning copies of books in order to create an electronic database of the books. These scanned copies could then be sent to participating libraries and would be made available in “snippet” form for online searches. It is estimated that since the start of the project Google has scanned more than twenty million books, the majority of which were out of print. During the process, Google did not endeavour to secure permission from the relevant copyright holders for the usage of their copyrighted works. Subsequently, in 2005 the Authors Guild which advocates for the writers’ interests, along with three individual authors whose work h

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