In a filing with the Second Circuit last week, Google defended its practice of displaying snippets in Google Books, and urged an appeals court to affirm Judge Denny Chin’s 2013 holding that the ...

A long-running copyright lawsuit between the Authors’ Guild and Google over its book-scanning project is over, and Google has won on the grounds that its scanning is “fair use.” In other words, the ...

Judges: Google Books Can Continue to Tease Students With Snippets A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Google Books can continue to make public small digitized portions of copyright-protected ...

Twenty years in prison drove Roderick “Rudy” Bankston to the dictionary, unlocking a lifelong passion for words. Sentenced to life at age 19 for a crime he didn’t commit, Bankston turned to books to ...

THE hero of “The Library of Babel”, a story by Jorge Luis Borges, loses himself in a gargantuan repository of every possible book in the universe. Google Books isn’t quite that vast, but it is big.

The drama of a sea tragedy and rescue attempts in treacherous conditions off the Wexford coast is recounted in graphic detail in Heroes of the Helen Blake (Hibernia Heritage, €18) by Brendan Power. In ...