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 ...

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 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 ...

Google Books was one of the most ambitious book projects in history. The plan was to scan all of the worlds books and make them publicly available. Due to years in court fighting authors and ...

Officials at Lauinger Library say they are looking into using Google Book Search, a program that uploads rare manuscripts and artwork to the Internet, allowing users to read books online. Artemis Kirk ...

(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 search engine’s ambitious project in ...

Google briefly paused its project, but in the summer of 2005, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer, told book executives at a meeting that Google didn't need their permission. While the ...