Month: November 2013
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United States Is versus United States Are
When Matthew Jockers, Jason Shultz and I were writing the Digital Humanities Amicus Briefs relating to the Google Books and HathiTrust cases, we searched for an illustration that would concisely explain why…
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Google Books held to be fair use
Authors Guild v. Google: library digitization as fair use vindicated, again. After more than eight years of litigation, the legality of the Google Books Search engine has finally been vindicated. Authors Guild v…
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University of Iowa presentation on copyright, mass digitization and the digital humanities
I am giving a talk today on copyright, mass digitization and the digital humanities at the University of Iowa law school. My talk will focus on the ongoing litigation between the Authors…
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Some thoughts on the use of bio photos
I have noticed over the years that whenever someone puts together a bio page for me in relation to a talk or a conference presentation that they tend to grab just any…