Today, more than ten years after a group of authors sued Google for the book-scanning project, a U.S. appeals court ruled that Google’s book-scanning project did not violate copyright law. The judges rejected an appeal from a collection of authors who claimed that the scanning project deprived them of revenue. In the case, Google’s legal team argued that scanning books and making them searchable actually boosted sales. Google’s legal team said that it made it easier for readers to find specific books and also made it easier to discover new books . Here is a brief snippet of the decision written by Justice Pierre Leval: To read the full decision, click here.
