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Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case

article published on 19 April, 2016

The Authors Guild copyright law case against Google Books will not be examined by the U.S. Supreme Court. A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Google over a decade ago in response to its planned service. Google Books makes it easy for consumers to search through the contents of millions of books that have been scanned by Google over the years, and display excerpts from books that ... [ read the full article ]

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NHS2008
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_ 		19. April 2016 @ 10:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's a stupid lawsuit. It helped me buy a couple books.
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hearme0
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_ 		20. April 2016 @ 16:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by NHS2008:
 That's a stupid lawsuit. It helped me buy a couple books.
Nice!

I was gonna say that this is a terrible lawsuit as this indeed does bring awareness to previous works as well as current ones.
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CarpeSol
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_ 		22. April 2016 @ 00:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wonder who the authors are. I can't imagine their books are very good if they have to resort to petty crap like this.
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KillerBug
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_ 		25. April 2016 @ 09:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by CarpeSol:
 I wonder who the authors are. I can't imagine their books are very good if they have to resort to petty crap like this.
Probably people who have had one good line in their entire career and are thus afraid that people will get free access to the only good thing they ever did.
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