Scanning and digitizing one book costs $60. Scanning and digitizing the University’s 7.7 million printed works would cost $462 million. A price as steep as that makes it easy to understand why the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitize millions of books, suggesting that ...

In the latest twist in the long-running battle over Google’s mass book-scanning project, a group of academic authors has filed an amici curiae brief in support of the libraries that supplied the works ...

The class action lawsuit against Google was filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of New York, and seeks to protect the owners of visual works copyrights from the "massive and organized ...

The libraries that supplied the books for Google’s effort to create the world’s largest online library were covered by fair use, a judge has ruled The Author’s Guild had claimed the libraries that ...

For those who have ever wondered how many different books are out there in the world, Google has an answer for you: 129,864,880, according to Leonid Taycher, a Google software engineer who works on ...

Google won an important legal victory on Friday, when the Second United States Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s judgment in its years-long battle with the Authors Guild over Google ...

Google unveiled its plans during a Tuesday book industry event in New York, as reported by The Wall Street Journal and other outlets. According to the Journal, the event, sponsored by the Book ...

Google Inc. has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers with the ability to print them out. The feature went ...