Google wins long US court battle on book-scanning

Google's massive book-scanning project cleared its final legal hurdle Monday as the US Supreme Court denied an appeal contending it violates copyright law. The top US court denied without comment a petition from the Authors Guild to hear the appeal of a 2013 federal court ruling seen as a landmark copyright decision for the digital era. In a decade-long case, authors and their backers claimed Google was illegally scanning and digitizing millions of books without compensation to the copyright hol