Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

Google cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a “fair use” under copyright law. The arguments, set ...

Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

How the tech giant has fared in its major legal battles across the U.S. and Europe so far. By Nico Grant The absence of stringent regulation has allowed the search giant to dominate the powerful ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc, criticized for scanning books without copyright permission, has said it would open its digital library to rivals and bookstores, the search engine giant said on ...