Court Is Cool With Google Cache

January 26, 2006

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A lawsuit against Google's practice of caching web pages in its index was rejected by a Nevada district court in a decision that could impact Google's claims of "fair use" in its Book Search project. The US District Court for the District of Nevada tossed out author/attorney Blake Field's copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, in a decision the Electronic Frontier Foundation In Google's many battles over its book scanning projects, the search advertising company has continually claimed its work was a fair use of copyrighted works. The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers both sued Google over its project, claiming copyright infringement. The 25-page republishing RSS feeds, has caused consternation for some of the so-called "A-list" here. Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.

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