Google Books just won a decade-long copyright fight

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The Washington Post: "The decade-long legal fight over Google's effort to create a digital library of millions of books is finally over.

 

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from authors who had argued that the tech giant's project was "brazen violation of copyright law" -- effectively ending the legal battle in Google's favor.

 

Without the Supreme Court taking up the case, a federal appeals court ruling from October, which found that the book-scanning program fell under the umbrella of fair use, will stand."

 

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