Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling – The New York Times

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Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling (Published 2015)

The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirms a lower court decision rejecting claims by the Authors Guild that a book scanning project violates copyright.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/media/googles-digital-library-wins-court-of-appeals-ruling.html

“The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals,” Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote, explaining the court’s decision.