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mtgx on Oct 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting ...

I thought Google and the authors settled? What is this ruling for? Is this in another trial?

Avenger42 on Oct 11, 2012 | [–]

Google settled with the publishers [1]. There's still a case between Google and the Authors Guild.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/google-se...

rada on Oct 11, 2012 | [–]

Different lawsuit against the libraries that gave those books to Google to scan.

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