German publisher WBG has dropped its legal challenge to Google's Books Library Project, according to the Internet search giant. "It's our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright ...

The president of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, said in a speech to scholarly-book publishers on Monday that her institution’s participation in the controversial Google Library Project ...

Scanning and digitizing one book costs $60. Scanning and digitizing the University’s 7.7 million printed works would cost $462 million. A price as steep as that makes it easy to understand why the ...

The class action lawsuit against Google was filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York, and seeks to protect the owners of visual works copyrights from the "massive and organized ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...

In the latest twist in the long-running battle over Google’s mass book-scanning project, a group of academic authors has filed an amici curiae brief in support of the libraries that supplied the works ...

Google won an important legal victory on Friday, when the Second United States Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s judgment in its years-long battle with the Authors Guild over Google ...

Google Inc. has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers with the ability to print them out. The feature went ...

The president of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, said in a speech to publishers of scholarly books last week that her institution’s participation in the controversial Google Library ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...