The Book Deal May Be Dead, But Google Is Still Right
GigaOM, March 25, 2011
By Mathew Ingram
The Google book settlement -- which the search giant signed with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers in 2008, after a dispute over the company's scanning of books -- was struck down by a judge this week as too far-reaching. But the fact that the arrangement has been rejected might not be such a bad thing, because it puts the spotlight back where it should be: on the fact that Google is doing nothing wrong in scanning books without the permission of the authors or the publishers of those books.
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