Responding to concerns from several academic and commercial publishers, Google has made minor adjustments to its vast project to scan library books, and Google officials say they will not scan any ...

With a $5-million commitment, Microsoft’s MSN Search division is joining universities and its online-search rival Yahoo in a consortium dedicated to scanning millions of public-domain books. The ...

Google cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a “fair use” under copyright law. The arguments, set ...

Live Search Books is similar to Google Book Search, though Microsoft is taking an opt-in approach to copyright works. Images: Search this book! In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about ...

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry’s rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica ...