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The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, Matthew Sag
The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, Matthew Sag
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The sprawling Google Book Search litigation began as a dispute between the search engine colossus and a variety of authors and publishers over the legality of Google’s book digitization effort, the Google Book Search project (“GBS” or “Google Book Search”), for the purpose of indexing paper collections and making them searchable on the Internet. However, through the metamorphic power of class action litigation, a dispute over mere indexing and searching has been transformed into a comprehensive agreement over the future of the book as a digital commodity. Understanding this transformation and its implications is the central ambition of this article. …
Some Optimism About Fair Use And Copyright Law, Michael J. Madison
Some Optimism About Fair Use And Copyright Law, Michael J. Madison
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This short paper reflects on the emergence of codes of best practices in fair use, highlighting both the relationship between the best practices approach and an institutional perspective on copyright and the relationship between the best practices approach and social processes of innovation and creativity.