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Google Books just won a decade-long copyright fight – The Washington Post “The legal fight over Google’s effort to create a digital library of millions of book is finally over”. Posted from Diigo.

“Google’s copying is fair use under 17 U.S.C. §107 and is therefore not infringing. The Court of Appeals concludes that the defendant’s copying is transformative within the meaning of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 10 578-585 (1994), does not offer the public a meaningful  substitute for matter protected by the plaintiffs’ copyrights, […]

Il 14 novembre sorso un Giudice federale del distretto di New York ha dato ragione a Google, titolare del programma noto come Google Books, contro la Authors Guild, cioè la più importante associazione americana a tutela degli interessi degli autori (già pubblicati). Il programma di digitalizzazione delle opere nelle biblioteche americane portato avanti da Google,  […]