Supreme court upholds Google Books fair use rights against Authors Guild.

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-20

Summary:

"On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider a 2015 circuit court decision on Google Books. In the process, the Supreme Court effectively affirmed the earlier finding, confirming that it was within the company’s rights to scan millions of volumes and produce a searchable database of their contents ..."

Link:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/04/18/supreme_court_upholds_google_books_fair_use_rights_against_authors_guild.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.google.books oa.authors_guild oa.litigtion oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.digitization oa.libre

Date tagged:

04/20/2016, 08:31

Date published:

04/20/2016, 04:31