“Transformative use” is not about a war between giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects, although there are similarities between the animated television series “The Transformers” and the war that has been taking place for more than a decade between Google and the publishing industry. Internet giant Google has been sued by publishing giants – in 2005, by the American Association of Publishers and, more recently, by the Authors Guild. Google’s Library Project, which began in 2004, involves agreements between Google and a number of the world’s major research libraries under which participating libraries selected books from… Read more