NEW YORK: A US federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its effort to digitise millions of books, suggesting that many authors could benefit from the project.
Billions of dollars are at stake in the long-running dispute, in which The Authors Guild as well as groups representing photographers and graphic artists argue that the Google Books project amounts to massive copyright infringement.
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