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“Judge Hands Google a Big Victory in Book-Scanning Case”

November 18, 2013

In a ruling celebrated by fair-use advocates, text-mining scholars, and librarians, a federal judge ruled that Google's use of copyrighted works in its Google Books program counts as fair use, and he dismissed a lawsuit originally brought by authors and publishers groups in 2005.

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