Court finds full-book scanning is fair use – Boing Boing

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Court finds full-book scanning is fair use

The Hathi Trust has won another important victory in its court battles against the Authors Guild over the right of academic libraries to scan books under the banner of fair use. Hathi creates full-…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/06/14/court-finds-full-book-scanning.html

the court wrote, “the creation of a full‐text searchable database is a quintessentially transformative use”.