Link: Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case | Threat Level | Wired.com
In a 30-page decision (.pdf) Judge Denny Chin of New York ruled that Google’s move to digitize millions of university and commercially available books is on its face a violation of the owners’ copyrights. But Google’s limited use of the work makes the scanning “fair use” under copyright law, Chin ruled.