Lexorbis reports that, the Google Book Search Project, whereby Google has created a virtual repository of online books by scanning them has been in the news recently for copyright violations. Class actions have been filed against Google in US, China and even Germany and France. The digital library initiative, though making it convenient for the Internet users to access books online, has created a difficulty in violating the copyright of the authors. Mostly, the books are reproduced without the licence of the authors, who have been up in arms against the project.

The ambit of Fair Use exception being wide in the US, the Author’s Guild had arrived at a settlement with Google [...]

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