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US: Google Books just won a decade-long copyright fight

By  |  April 18, 2016

The decade-long legal fight over Google’s effort to create a digital library of millions of books is finally over.

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    The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from authors who had argued that the tech giant’s project was “brazen violation of copyright law” — effectively ending the legal battle in Google’s favor.

    Without the Supreme Court taking up the case, a federal appeals court ruling from October, which found that the book-scanning program fell under the umbrella of fair use, will stand.

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