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U.S. Supreme Court

Apr. 20, 2016

US high court won't hear Google Books case

Google Inc.'s ambitious effort to digitize vast library collections survived a long legal fight with book authors on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lower court decision siding with the search giant.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Google Inc.'s ambitious effort to digitize vast library collections survived a long legal fight with book authors on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lower court decision siding with the search giant.

Last year, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held that Google's effort to make the text of millions of books searchable did not violate copyright law becaus...

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