Google Settles With Publishers After 7-Year Legal Battle

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Google settled out-of-court with the Association of American Publishers over Google Books, the company’s service that offers scanned portions of books for free online, The New York Times reported. The Association of American Publishers had first filed a copyright infringement suit over Google Books in 2005. Under the terms of the settlement, which haven’t been made public, Google reportedly gets to offer 20 percent of selected volumes online for free and give users the option to purchase full versions through its Google Play store. Publishers may also choose which out-of-print books of theirs Google is allowed to scan, so long as Google provides the publisher of the book with digital copies as well. 

However, Google is still fighting a lawsuit by the Authors Guild, as Ars Technica noted. 

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