Snippets, Ja!

Official Google Blog: Germany and the Google Books Library Project

It’s our belief that the display of short snippets from in-copyright books does not infringe German copyright law. Today the Court indicated that it agreed, drawing a comparison with the snippets used in Google web search. And the Court also rejected the WBG’s argument that the scanning of its books in the U.S. infringed German copyright law.

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