The great collapse of copyright – Thoughts of a Bohemian

Link: http://blog.melchersystem.com/the-great-collapse-of-copyright/
If major stock photo agencies ignore image copyright, then who will ? Separate but similar events of the last month show an alarming trend..

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Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case

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.

Link:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/google-books/