The CASE 11.2 Authors Guild v.Google,Inc.(2016)involves Google's action of creating an index of approximately 20 million scanned books that allows users of its Google Books search engine to enter a word or phrase and generate a list of books that include the word or phrase,as well as a "limited viewing" of text.The court ruled that Google did not violate copyright based on the:
A) contributory copyright doctrine.
B) copyright misuse doctrine.
C) fair use doctrine.
D) first sale doctrine.

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The court ruled that Google's use of the copyrighted books falls under fair use doctrine, which allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission, as it serves a transformative purpose by creating a searchable database of books and giving access to information to the public that would have been difficult to find otherwise.