Nov 14 2013
Google has defeated a legal action mounted to stop it scanning and uploading millions of books.
In 2005, the US Authors Guild sued Google alleging that its plans to create a digital library amounted to massive copyright infringement.
In its defense, Google said its plans constituted "fair use" because it was only putting excerpts of texts online.
US judge Denny Chin has now sided with Google and dismissed the case brought by the Guild.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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