Though Google has won a number of victories in court recently supporting their claim of fair use over text captured and shared by Google Books and other related enterprises, the company has remained potentially more vulnerable to separate copyright infringement claims brought against Google Books by photographers and visual. (As far back as 2012 Google’s attorneys told the court they were in some kind of settlement discussions with those groups.) On Friday afternoon — when companies love to avoid attention — Google announced they had agreed to settle a 2010 lawsuit brought by a diverse group of photographers, visual artists […]
