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Another Google copyright story

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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 6 (10): 696--714 (2011)

Abstract

LEGAL CONTEXT: This article examines the Google Books project, an ambitious enterprise digitizing millions of hard-copy books provided by public libraries in the US and other countries. KEY POINTS: In 2005, soon after Google announced its digitization plans the Authors Guild and several publishers filed complaints against Google for scanning and making available books from the University of Michigan Library alleging infringement of their copyrights. These filings later solidified into class actions representing respectively authors and publishers. PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: The author examines the hypothetical approval of the ASA from a fair use defence, as applicable under US law or international copyright law, and from a Scandinavian perspective concerning the so-called extended collective licences, here denominated as "statutory license agreements".

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