NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of ...

Princeton University has signed on to Google’s ever-expanding book-scanning project, joining a growing list of college libraries that have agreed to let the search engine digitize volumes from their ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Google has signed an accord with France's biggest book publisher Hachette Livre on the scanning and sale of out-of-print books, which grants the publisher wide control over pricing ...

Google cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a “fair use” under copyright law. The arguments, set ...

Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

The approved settlement would end a class-action lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild and book authors as well as a separate suit brought by five major publishers. The suits alleged that Google scanning ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google and U.S. publishers have settled a longstanding dispute over Google's book-scanning project. A lawsuit filed by authors remains, though, leaving the project in ...

In this March 21, 2008 file photo, a scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world was helping Google Inc.'s ...

How the tech giant has fared in its major legal battles across the U.S. and Europe so far. By Nico Grant The absence of stringent regulation has allowed the search giant to dominate the powerful ...