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Raquel Xalabarder, Google Books and Fair Use: A Tale of Two Copyrights?, 5 (2014) JIPITEC 53 para 1.

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%T Google Books and Fair Use: A Tale of Two Copyrights?
%A Xalabarder, Raquel
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%D 2014
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%X On 14 November 2013, the US District Court of the Southern District of New York issued a major ruling  in favour of the Google Books project, concluding that Google’s unauthorized scanning and indexing of millions of copyrighted books in the collections of participating libraries and subsequently making snippets of these works available online through the “Google Books” search tool qualifies as a fair use under section 107 USCA.  After assuming that Google’s actions constitute a prima facie case of copyright infringement, Judge Chin examined the four factors in section 107 USCA and concluded in favour of fair use on the grounds that the project provides “significant public benefits,” that the unauthorized use of copyrighted works (a search tool of scanned full-text books) is “highly transformative” and that it does not supersede or supplant these works. The fair use defence also excluded Google’s liability for making copies of scanned books available to the libraries (as well as under secondary liability since library actions were also found to be protected by fair use): it is aimed at enhancing lawful uses of the digitized books by the libraries for the advancement of the arts and sciences. A previous ruling by the same court of 22 March 2011 had rejected a settlement agreement proposed by the parties, on the grounds that it was “not fair, adequate, and reasonable”.  The Authors Guild has appealed the ruling.
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%U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-39081
%P 53-59

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  author = 	"Xalabarder, Raquel",
  title = 	"Google Books and Fair Use: A Tale of Two Copyrights?",
  journal = 	"JIPITEC",
  year = 	"2014",
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  number = 	"1",
  pages = 	"53--59",
  abstract = 	"On 14 November 2013, the US District Court of the Southern District of New York issued a major ruling  in favour of the Google Books project, concluding that Google's unauthorized scanning and indexing of millions of copyrighted books in the collections of participating libraries and subsequently making snippets of these works available online through the ``Google Books'' search tool qualifies as a fair use under section 107 USCA.  After assuming that Google's actions constitute a prima facie case of copyright infringement, Judge Chin examined the four factors in section 107 USCA and concluded in favour of fair use on the grounds that the project provides ``significant public benefits,'' that the unauthorized use of copyrighted works (a search tool of scanned full-text books) is ``highly transformative'' and that it does not supersede or supplant these works. The fair use defence also excluded Google's liability for making copies of scanned books available to the libraries (as well as under secondary liability since library actions were also found to be protected by fair use): it is aimed at enhancing lawful uses of the digitized books by the libraries for the advancement of the arts and sciences. A previous ruling by the same court of 22 March 2011 had rejected a settlement agreement proposed by the parties, on the grounds that it was ``not fair, adequate, and reasonable''.  The Authors Guild has appealed the ruling.",
  issn = 	"2190-3387",
  url = 	"http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-39081"
}

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