Category: digital humanities
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HathiTrust Wins on Fair Use, and just about everything else
Landmark Fair Use Win Yesterday, District Judge Harold Baer, Jr., handed down his decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, a case that spins out of the long-running Google Books dispute. The decision is…
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Google Book Search: Digital Humanities still needs answers
Google has settled with the publishers, but not the Authors Guild. This is good news for the Digital Humanities because it means that we may still get a substantive ruling on the…
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more coverage of digital humanities amicus
I just read James Grimmelmann’s amusing and insightful post, Google Books: Even Friends of the Court Have Enemies. He concludes that “The opposition, overall, is a litigation tactic for the sake of…
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Authors Guild Unable to Silence Amici
The Judge presiding over Authors Guild v. Google granted leave to file for the Digital Humanities brief and an amicus brief by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research…
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Great panel at IPSC on orphan works, library digitization and fair use
In “The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma” Ariel Katz notes that extended collective licensing (ECL) proposals will do nothing to solve the underlying orphan works problem. Like “Indulgences” ECL solutions…
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What is at stake in Authors Guild v. Google; Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
Now that the Google Book Settlement is well and truly dead, attention is turning back to the underlying legal controversy. There are many issues in Authors Guild v. Google and the parallel…
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Authors Guild asks Judge to Ignore the Digital Humanities
Counsel for the Authors Guild have asked the court to deny our motion for leave to participate as amici in the case of Authors Guild v. Google. On Friday August 3, 2012,…