Not only that, the author gets a lot of the "legal" stuff wrong. Of interest, though, is that we may soon get a decision in the Google book digitization case. It's been tied up in questions about whether the Authors Guild can rightfully represent "all authors," and the question of digitization and fair use hasn't been addressed. A court recently decided that the Authors Guild could not bring a class action, and at least one legal expert thinks that Google may win on the fair use defense regarding digitization for the purpose of indexing.
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2013/07/01/second_circuit_decertifies_the_google_books_class It would be great to at least get *that* part settled. kc On 7/11/13 7:13 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > It's an interesting article, but the title is incorrect, and possibly > libelous. As the body of the article explains, the legality of Open > Library's lending practice of using a digital proxy for a physical copy > has never been tested. > > Tom > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Vojtěch Vojtíšek <vojtise...@gmail.com > <mailto:vojtise...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I've come across an article this morning with kind of a warning in > it, called "The Internet Archive’s Open Library is violating > authors’ copyrights", see goo.gl/SWi09 <http://goo.gl/SWi09>. How > are some of the issues (electronic/scanned books loan vs. physical > books) dealt with in OL? > > Thank you for any information given, > > Vojtěch > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org <mailto:Ol-discuss@archive.org> > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > <mailto:ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
