Washington (AFP) April 18, 2016Google's massive book-scanning project cleared its final legal hurdle Monday as the US Supreme Court denied an appeal contending it violates copyright law. The top US court denied without comment a petition from the Authors Guild to hear the appeal of a 2013 federal court ruling seen as a landmark copyright decision for the digital era. In a decade-long case, authors and their backers cl Reported by Energy Daily 19 hours ago.