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October 15, 2012

Google-Publisher Deal Ignores Elephant In The Room: Fair Use

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by ANTONE GONSALVES, ReadWriteWeb

Google and five publishers settled a long-standing legal battle over whether scanning university-library books and using snippets in search results can be done without the permission of copyright holders. While the agreement lets Google continue its work, both sides deliberately avoided tackling the issue at the heart of the conflict: What does fair use mean in the digital age?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google-publisher-deal-ignores-elephant-in-the-room-fair-use.php

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