The key legal question is whether the courts will allow Google to continue to scan copyrighted material without permission.

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For the publishers, if Google gives them anything at all, it creates a practical precedent, if not a legal precedent, that no one has the right to scan this material without their consent.

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Several companies in America scan their employees' e-mail for unpleasant or disloyal material, or test them to see if they have been taking drugs.

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You want progressive material or movies, it has to be done on all computers, with progressive scan hardware.

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While holding the Smart Scan button on the left side of the mouse, the user simply swipes the mouse over the material to be scanned.

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U.S. District Judge Denise Cote rejected Meltwater's claims that its use of Web stories drawn from a scan of 162, 000 news websites from more than 190 countries was a fair use of copyright-protected material.

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