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Google has announced a new typeface for Google Books: Literata. Replacing Droid Serif as the default typeface for e-books via Google Books, Google says Literata is “perfect for long reads on all devices”. Created in conjunction with TypeTogether (Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP) SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Thursday landed a key legal victory against the publishing industry in what could pave the way for the search giant to continue its quest to scan the world's books. A New York federal judge After almost a decade of litigation, Google scored a victory last week over the Authors Guild, which had sued the company for copyright infringement over its Google Books search engine. But a few important chapters in the legal saga have yet to be written. Last November, Judge Denny Chin dealt a blow to the lawsuit filed by publishers and the Author’s Guild against tech giant Google and its Google Books service long as it has been around, with the Authors Guild filling the current suit in 2005. I reported back in 2013 on Google Books pioneering court victory against the Authors Guild over its practice of scanning and putting online parts of copyrighted books. Today the federal 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, as reported in the Wall Street We believe in the free flow of information. We use a Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives licence, so you can republish our articles for free, online or in print. Google’s efforts to scan millions of books for an online library have passed another .

Google’s program that scans books in order to make them searchable has been found legal. A judge found fair use, especially in that “Google Books does not supersede or supplant books because it is not a tool to be used to read books.” The ruling by Nine years later, the company has overcome a major roadblock in its mission. On Thursday, a judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the Google Books project brought by authors who claimed the project violated their copyrights. By sheer numbers Google Books has launched a new feature that lets you download and save books using the Chrome web browser, allowing you to read eBooks even when you don’t have an internet connection. That makes Google Books a heck of a lot useful if you’re one of the On Friday, an appeals court characterized Google's book-scanning project as 'highly transformative' fair use that doesn't infringe on the rights of individual authors. Since 2004, Google has scanned millions of books from research libraries in an effort to .