Breakthrough in Google Book Search case
31 October 2008
Eileen McDermott, Chicago
Google has reached a settlement agreement with numerous authors and publishers worldwide who brought a class action suit against the internet company’s proposed Google Book Search engine
The settlement has yet to be approved by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, but would put an end to two class action suits challenging the Google Book Search website, which aimed to "digitize, search and show snippets of in-copyright books and to share digital copies with libraries without the explicit permission of the copyright owner", according to a statement by the...
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