Google has retaken the offensive against thousands of authors who claimed it copied their works without permission, urging the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit arising from its ambitious plan to build the world’s largest digital book library.
The request yesterday by the world’s largest search engine company followed a federal judge’s March 2011 rejection of a sweeping $125 million settlement of the now seven-year-old case.
Talks to revive an accord later broke down. Google has posted snippets of more than 4 million books since agreeing with large research libraries to digitise current and out-of-print works for its website. – (Reuters)