Google’s Books Win May Threaten Movies, TV

Bloomberg Businessweek: On Oct. 16 a U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling in favor of Google and against the Authors Guild, meaning writers can’t stop the search giant from adding their work to its online library of more than 20 million books. But the effects of the Google Books decision could be felt far beyond publishing. “If scanning all the books in the world and making parts of them available is fair use, you could do this with movies or music or television.”