The act of scanning Google books is judged as legal

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It is said that Google has scanned books and used online search services for copyright laws violations, and the Legal Measures have been taken by the coalition federation, and trials have been held for many years. The act was legal "declared.

Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds "fair use," cites many benefits - Tech News and Analysis
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Judge Denny Chin of New York's Circuit Court judged that "scanning by Google is legal" in a copyright infringement lawsuit that Google has fought over for eight years with Authors Guild (coauthor) .

Until now, Google has been able to scan, digitize and publish more than 20 million books published, and retrieve the full text of the book "Google BooksWe have offered. With Google Books, you can search for the entire sentence in the book, and the search results will show some of the contents of the book free of charge (in the case of books with copyright loss, the full text will be displayed) . Also, in Google Books, the books searched are linked to the online selling site.

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In this ruling, Judge Jin said that Google's scanning acts are based on so-called "Fair use (fair use)"The reason for making a decision that it is not infringement of copyrights, Google's duplication behavior is to display only a part retrieved from the full sentence, and to attach a link to the copyrighted work It is "highly transformative" in that it is not violating the market of the original work, and the author does not result in depriving the income, rather that the reader does not read the book It also fulfills the role of helping to discover that it contributes to the profit of authors and that it plays a role in protecting older books physically damaged and also helps to access books to blind people I am listing what I am doing.

In response to the decision, Google said that "Google Books is pleased with the recent ruling that Google has asserted Google's claim that it is helping readers find books that they want to borrow, In addition, in response to the judgment criteria indicated in the judgment, opinions expressed by many librarians and scholars are expressed through Twitter.

The content of this judgment completely denies the long-awaited argument of the copyright association that "the scan action by Google damages the profit of the author", and Paul Aiken, who is a director of the copyright association, "We are disappointed with this decision, Google is digitizing the value of copyrighted works without permission and receiving benefits from it.In our view, Google's actions are It is an illegal thing beyond the scope of fair use "and reveals the idea of ​​appealing.