{"id":2705,"date":"2013-11-14T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2013-11-14T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:53:11","slug":"google-wins-present-legal-round-on-its-book-scan-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2013\/11\/14\/google-wins-present-legal-round-on-its-book-scan-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wins present legal round on its book scan project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google has for many years scanned large numbers of books including many covered by copyright. Making content from this process available has brought legal challenges from the copyright holders.<\/p>\n

However, if you try Google Books<\/a>\u00a0you can see the benefits. I found out our books were scanned and it was kind of fun to search for different things.<\/p>\n

The suit brought against Google<\/a> argued that content could be secured without a purchase.<\/p>\n

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For books in “snippet view” (in contrast to “full view”\u00a0books), Google divides each page into eighths — each of which is\u00a0a “snippet,” a verbatim excerpt. (Google Resp. \u00b6\u00b6 43, 44). Each\u00a0search generates three snippets, but by performing multiple\u00a0searches using different search terms, a single user may view far\u00a0more than three snippets, as different searches can return\u00a0different snippets. (Google Resp. \u00b6 45). For example, by making\u00a0a series of consecutive, slightly different searches of the book\u00a0Ball Four, a single user can view many different snippets from\u00a0the book. (Google Resp. \u00b6\u00b6 46, 47).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The reference in the comment I have abstracted is to Bouton’s “Ball Four”. However, having explored what this looks like for my own books it does not seem a serious concern. For a given search, I can view three “snippets” of a couple of sentences. As a viewer, it would give me some assurance that the author has addressed a topic, but the amount of content I could collect is minimal.<\/p>\n

The newest decision<\/a> argued that what Google is provided is covered under “fair use”.<\/p>\n

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Fair use rulings focus on four factors. Of these, the most important is whether the use of the work is “transformative.” Chin ruled that Google Books passes this test easily.<\/p>\n

“Google Books digitizes books and transforms expressive text into a comprehensive word index that helps readers, scholars, researchers, and others find books,” he wrote. “Google Books does not supersede or supplant books because it is not a tool to be used to read books.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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