Google & copyright

Google's understanding of copyright law?

[farmboy]

Is Google correct or is this a case of a Google employee responding to a request because it was submitted by a government official?

[thefcblog.com...]

Francke added that if the documents are indeed copyrighted, the posting by the blog of the pay stubs would qualify as a “fair use” - meaning it would pass legal muster - because there is no market value lost by the publication.

[dartman]

Google may have intended to limit any liability by removing the material. Whether right or wrong is probably a matter for the courts.

Here's a situation with some similarity -
[onlinepolicy.org...]

Snippet...IndyMedia web page hosted by OPG links to online locations at which Diebold correspondence was posted, specifically an e-mail archive of communications among Diebold employees about the company’s electronic voting machine product ...