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But its not
"Making a copyrighted book available electronically"

But its not making it available is it, its making 'snippets' available for searchers.

"Note that exceptions to reproducing copyrighted material are explicitly spelled out in copyright law"

I don't think so, recall the 1984 Betamax was not spelled out in law it came in with case law.

It doesn't seem to be an unreasonable thing to do, with lots of non-infringing use and no infringing use. Its difficult to see how they can argue that the digitization itself causes harm.

The fair user provision does apply to Libraries and Universities I think:

http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000107----000-.html
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 05/25/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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This sounds like something wonderful for everyone.  mobrien_12@... | 05/24/05
I don't think it does  Nigel Johnstone | 05/25/05
Media Change  Nigel Johnstone | 05/24/05
How about this  Nigel Johnstone | 05/25/05
I don't think...  rapson | 05/25/05
But its not  Nigel Johnstone | 05/25/05
Then...  rapson | 05/25/05
It will work if it is done properly  MarkHollmann | 05/25/05
That's a big "If".  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/25/05
Fuzzy target, need better OCR  TheProtector | 05/25/05
Opt out?  rapson | 05/25/05
From the comment above  Nigel Johnstone | 05/25/05
Snippets?  rapson | 05/25/05
But digitizing isn't distribution  Nigel Johnstone | 05/25/05
If that's the case  rapson | 05/25/05
This is a non issue at all!  Mectron | 06/20/05

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