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This excellent article reviews pertinent events leading up to Google's current legal battles with authors and publishers over copyright and fair use, including details from precedent setting cases and quotes from various parties. Here are the court cases, if you're interested in looking them up:
Random House v. Rosetta Books New York Times v. Jonathan Tasini Greenberg v. National Geographic Faulkner v. National Geographic Authors Guild v. Google (pending) McGraw Hill v. Google (pending)