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Authors who sign up with digitisation programs run by companies such as Google or Amazon may be unwittingly sacrificing some of their rights, a media lawyer has warned.
A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, may be violating US copyright law.
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Google will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books from libraries into its database, the company said last Thursday.
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