18.10.2015 - 18:33 [ Boing Boing ]

Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google‘s book-scanning is legal

Search results from Google Books only shows snippets or pages from the scanned books, similar to the snippets from copyrighted Web-pages that all search-engines display in their search results. As with its Web-search, Google Books allowed rightsholders to opt out of having their books included in search-results.