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Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory

167 pointsby abrahamover 12 years ago

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bookworm_over 12 years ago
"text mining"<p>Hmmm. It's not so easy to do this with ebooks viewed in a graphical ebook reader. Note he didn't say "text search". He said mining.<p>Does this suggest noncommercial library books will offer research capabilities that commercial ebooks will not?<p>I want my ebooks in ASCII format. And that certainly goes for textbooks.<p>less(1) is my "ebook reader".
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waterlesscloudover 12 years ago
Would copying a VHS tape to a digital format similarly be fair use? Why or why not?
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fluxonover 12 years ago
Dear Google,<p>Please resume scanning books, old magazines and newspapers, which you "paused" some time back. It was sensible to take a wait-and-see approach until this decision was reached.<p>Thank you.
mtgxover 12 years ago
I thought Google and the authors settled? What is this ruling for? Is this in another trial?
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