In a filing with the US district court in Manhattan, Google has urged the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit claiming the company copied thousands of authors' works without permission. Google has said that it has scanned 20 million books and has posted snippets of more than four million since agreeing with large libraries to digitize current and out-of-print works. Google claims the authors have demonstrated no economic harm from the indexing of the works, and reap the benefits of the online availability.
