Tech. Giant, Google Inc. has been declared victorious by a US
judge, Denny Chin. In the year 2005, US Authors Guild sued Google Inc. over
plans to create e-library. Google said its plans constituted "fair
use" because it was only putting excerpts of texts online.
The judge accepted that Google's project will provide
significant public benefits. Before now, authors’ guild and publisher
negotiated with Google to pay $125m (£78m) so as to compensate the writers of
copyrighted works that appeared in the online library. The whole agreement was
cancelled in March 2011 by a US court and granted Google a "de facto
monopoly" to copy books.
In October 2012, US publishers negotiated separately with
Google but the financial terms remain concealed. However, Google has defeated a
legal action mounted to stop it scanning and uploading millions of books.
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