Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case | Ars Technica - 0 views
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dr tech on 19 Apr 16"The Authors' Guild originally sued Google, saying that serving up search results from scanned books infringes on publishers' copyrights even though the search giant shows only restricted snippets of the work. The writers also claimed that Google's book search snippets provide an illegal free substitute for their work and that Google Books infringes their "derivative rights" in revenue they could gain from a "licensed search" market."