Google's first legal victory in the battles over its Google Books
Library Project
WBG, a German publisher, droped its petition for a
preliminary injunction against the Google Books Library Project after being told
by the Copyright Chamber of the Regional Court of Hamburg that its petition was
unlikely to succeed. The court indicated that the display of short snippets from
in-copyright books and the scanning of the books in the U.S. does not infringe
German copyright law.