Friday, November 15, 2013

Google Books project is still legal - CHIP

In 2012, China granted the right to Authors Guild class action lawsuit, in which the organization accusing Google of piracy and called for the immediate closure of services for scanning books. Earlier this year, the decision of the Court of Appeal questioned the second instance, Chin ordered the re-examination proceedings, taking into account the arguments concerning the principles of the so-called Google. fair use.

And so it happened. In support of its recent judgment, which states that the Google Books project can be legally pursued China says:

Google Books is a new effective way so that readers and researchers can find the book. This allows millions of books can be searched for a specific word or phrase. According to the judge Google Books increases the availability of books.

China pointed out that despite the fact that Google has not returned to authors and copyright owners, do not break the law, because the content of copyrighted books available only in selected areas. In total, only those titles whose owners have agreed to the publication, expired or copyrights, or to determine the “owner” is not possible.

Google thinks that their service is the equivalent of a library card catalog, only moved to the present – in the digital age. With the service, the users are able to quickly find them interesting item that you can then buy or rent.

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