This has a senior US court Friday decided in a lawsuit between Google and a group of authors, says Reuters .
Google won the case already been addressed, but the authors appealed. According to the authors, they lose revenue if Google makes books available online.
The internet giant says that this is not the case, because the books are not read in their entirety. Visitors to Google Books to read only a small part of a book. In total, the service includes millions of books from libraries all over the world.
The three judges in the case were unanimous in their decision. They argued in the statement that Google “the edges of fair use ” chooses. That is a clause in US copyright law that permits taking on work under some conditions.
According to Judge Pierre Leval shows Google just enough context around a search to determine if a book is interesting, but the rights the author does not thereby violated
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