Publishers balk at Google book copy plan

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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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