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: Mass Law Blog

Google Wins (I mean settles) Google Book Search Copyright Suits

By Lee.Gesmer

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Google said Tuesday that it has agreed to pay $125 million to settle the copyright litigation brought by book authors and publishers over Google’s project to digitize and show snippets of in-copyright books without the explicit permission of copyright owners. (See 1 2 3 for more on Google Book Search).

$125 million? Peanuts to Google. Less than peanuts. We don’t know all the terms and possible restrictions yet, but it sounds like this is a huge win for Google, which is now free to continue its project of digitizing the world’s books (or at least those under the control of the settling parties) without the threat of injunction.

Google press release here.

Full post as published by Mass Law Blog on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).

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