The legal wrangling over Google Books–the tech giant’s wildly ambitious project to become one of the largest libraries and booksellers in the world–has taken on an international flavor. In late September a French publisher accused the ubiquitous search engine of breaking French copyright law in its effort to scan millions of books.
Since 2005 Google, Inc. has been inching its way toward–but not quite reaching–a settlement with authors and publishers that would give Google Book Search the right to scan and display millions of copyrighted books. As of press time, Google was scrambling to make changes to reach a settlement with parties that include the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, and a bevy of copyright holders. (For a fuller take on the U.S. litigation, see The American Lawyer supplement Litigation 2009.)
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