Google Book Scanning Project Is Fair Use

[morgandawn]

If the ruling is upheld on appeal, it will represent a significant triumph for Google. More important, it would expand fair use rights, benefiting many other technology companies. Many innovative media technologies involve aggregating or indexing copyrighted content. Today's ruling is the clearest statement yet that such projects fall on the right side of the fair use line.

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[laurashapiro]

Whoa! I really did not expect that. The implications are fascinating.

[elf]

Saw that today; it's awesome! A solid ruling that making copies of books for indexing, metadata and research purposes is legal... *sigh* wow, it's so nice to see a court being sane, and rule that "No, dammit, there is no DAMAGE being done here, and there's a lot of useful activity, so no, this is not an infringement."