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For a decade now, Google's enormous project to create a massive digital library of books has been embroiled in litigation with a group of writers who say it's costing them a lot of money in lost revenue. On Friday, Google notched a new victory when a federal appeals court ruled that the company's project was fair use.


A three-judge panel's vote was unanimous. Here's the summary opinion written by Judge Pierre Leval of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, in the case of 

 that also sided with Google, finding the book-scanning — even without the authors' permission — in compliance with copyright law.
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 that since 2004, Google had scanned more than 20 million books as part of an electronic database, making the contents searchable and snippets of the scanned books available for reading online.
As 

, much of the debate centers on the authors' share of revenue from the books:


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A group of authors had sued over Google's effort to compile a digital library, claiming that it's costing them a lot of money in lost revenue. The court found the program complies with copyright law.

Google's book-scanning project is legal, U.S. appeals court says

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