Google Books: Fair Use and Public Benefits

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-20

Summary:

After eight years of litigation, including complications of class actions and two massively complex proposed settlements, the U.S. district court in Manhattan ruled today that the scan search of tens of millions of copyrighted books by Google is within fair use.  The court dismissed the case.  The Authors Guild, the lead plaintiff, promptly announced plans [...]

Link:

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/2013/11/14/google-books-fair-use-and-public-benefits/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com
Fair Use Tracker » Columbia Copyright Advisory Office

Tags:

oa.new oa.licensing oa.comment oa.copyright oa.libraries oa.litigation oa.librarians oa.fair_use oa.google.books oa.authors_guild uncategorized oa.libre

Date tagged:

11/20/2013, 07:51

Date published:

11/20/2013, 02:51