Under the Google Books agreement, Google assumes all costs of scanning and shipping to their facilities; the universities just pay the cost of labor. If anything happens to the books in transit or at ...

The libraries that supplied the books for Google’s effort to create the world’s largest online library were covered by fair use, a judge has ruled The Author’s Guild had claimed the libraries that ...

While all of the parties in the Google Books settlement have said they are open to resuming negotiations, Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) president Rick Carnes is watching to see if Google turns to ...

The class action lawsuit against the Google Books project was filed on behalf of a number of trade associations and individual photographers and illustrators who were ...

So far, Google has compiled 1 million books with expired copyrights in its Google Books project and plans to scan millions more.

ITHACA, N.Y. – Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 ...

A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc<GOOG.O> over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...