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Google Books Survives Legal Challenge - Supreme Court Declines to Address Book-Digitization Project

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari over a Second Circuit decision (Authors’ Guild v. Google Inc.) affirming that Google’s project of digitizing, and making available online for searching, tens of millions of...more

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Google Books Is Transformative and Therefore a Fair Use - The Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc.

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Addressing the boundaries of fair use in copyright law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit found that the making of digital copies of tens of millions of books to establish a publicly available search function was a...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Famed Artist Jeffrey Koons Sued For Alleged Copyright Infringement…Again

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Jeffrey Koons is well-known to artists, auction houses, and copyright enthusiasts. His works of art have fetched substantial sums of money, including one that recently sold for more than $58 million—the most expensive work...more

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Google Books and Fair Use: From Implausible to Inevitable?

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A for-profit corporation scans millions of in-copyright books and permanently stores their full contents in its database, all without seeking permission or paying the books’ authors or publishers. Over ten years ago, when...more

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