Google Inc. asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit by authors over the digitizing of books, saying that the company’s book-scanning program is a fair use of copyrighted material and a benefit to the public and authors.
The lawsuit by the Authors Guild, as well as one filed by the American Society of Media Photographers, stems from Google’s plan announced in 2004 to scan millions of books from public and university libraries to provide snippets of text to people who use its Internet search engine.
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