Diana Uhimov, February 12, 2014. After an eight-year battle, Google recently prevailed in a copyright infringement case brought against it by the Authors Guild, in Authors Guild v. Google. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Denny Chin approved Google’s use of its digital book library, which is available to the general public for searching in an online database. Since 2004, Google has scanned more than 20 million books, making excerpts of text viewable online, under agreements with several research libraries to digitize their collections as part of its Google Books project. Authors…