Google in late 2004 announced a project to digitize millions of books and exploit the resulting electronic database, creating the world’s largest collection of books available for purchase,1 all without authorization of copyright owners.
Authors and publishers sued Google in 2005 for copyright infringement, resulting in a class action on behalf of all owners of U.S. copyrights in books published before Jan. 5, 2009.2 The parties submitted for court approval a proposed settlement, a 141-page document with 162 pages of appendices.
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