The facts may sound familiar. A group of major research libraries allowed Google Inc. to digitize millions of books in their collections. The digital copies were used to enable online searches of the books’ contents. Then, The Authors Guild sued for copyright infringement.
This lawsuit, however, isn’t against Google. Nor does it concern the Google Books project, Google’s plan to enable users to search the text of millions of digitized books and then read relevant snippets from many copyrighted books.
