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Win for Google book-scanning project in Germany 
Saturday July 01, 2006 (08:54 AM)
By: Alexander Turcic
who, after a judge told them that they were unlikely to get a
preliminary injunction, decided to drop the case. The court also ruled
that there was no copyright violation stemming from the project. From
the Official Google Blog:
Quote:
It's our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright books does not infringe German copyright law. Today the Court indicated that it agreed, drawing a comparison with the snippets used in Google web search. And the Court also rejected the WBG's argument that the scanning of its books in the U.S. infringed German copyright law. |
The German court decision has no influence on lawsuits in other
European countries. In France, for instance, publishing group Le
Martiniere is still suing
Google for "counterfeiting and breach of intellectual property rights"
and asking them for USD$128,000 for each of the about 100 books
involved and for each day's delay. And since we all how much French
officials love Google, it's probably not going to be as easy a win as
it was in Germany.
