US Supreme Court Delivers Final Blow to Challengers of Google Books

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a challenge to Google's online book library from a group of authors who maintain the library hinders their ability to sell their books. The justices let stand lower court rulings and dismissed a claim by The Authors Guild and individual authors that Google's digitizing of more than 20 million books amounts to "copyright infringement on an epic scale." The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York agreed in October with...

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