The Independent asks the question whether Google is creating the world's biggest library, or the world's biggest bookstore?

Let’s go back and summarize what’s going on at the moment in the US. Google launched its project to scan millions of books in the public domain to make them available online. However, it appeared quickly that Google was also scanning book that did not fall in the public domain or were not out of print. US authors and publishers sued Google in a class action for scanning millions of books from the University of Michigan Library without authorization.

The parties then negotiated for a few months and came to a settlement agreement [...]

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