Category: fair use
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Why digital humanities researchers support google’s fair use defense
I posted a guest-blog over at the Authors Alliance explaining why digital humanities researchers support google’s fair use defense in Authors Guild v. Google. The Authors Alliance supports Google’s fair use defense because…
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Digital Humanities and Legal Scholars in Authors Guild v. Google filed
On Thursday this week, we filed a brief on behalf over 150 researchers, scholars and educators in Authors Guild v. Google, currently on appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The Brief of Digital…
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Call for signatories: Digital Humanities Amicus in Authors Guild v. Google
Matthew Jockers, Jason Schultz and I have written an amicus brief in the upcoming Court of Appeals round of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. Download the draft here: DH Amicus AG v Google CA2 Background…
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Matthew Jockers explains why you can’t read a book through snippets
The Authors Guild’s war on search engines, text-mining and academic research is in its final throws. Over the last two years two different US Federal District Courts have held that library digitization…
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Authors Guild v. HathiTrust — Libraries 3 : Authors Guild 0
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the most important parts of the District Court decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust. Here is a link to the decision –AGvHathiTrust_CA2_2013. Along with…
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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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A word cloud of yesterday’s oral argument re #fairuse and #googlebooks
Just because I can.
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No adjournment in Authors Guild v. Google. Oral argument is set for Sept. 23, 2013
In an order dated yesterday, the court denied a request for adjournment of the oral argument, saying: The date of September 23, 2013 was set on July 8, 2013, more than five…