Court Ruling: Google's book scanning project is fair use

[ken_b]

The court concluded that "Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses."

[pcworld.com...]

[creeking]

I think this means G can copy and index a website, even over the owners objections. ignoring blocking efforts and "no index" efforts.


can I copy thousands of youtube videos for a snippet website?
can I copy thousands of songs for a snippet website?

[tangor]

I've been watching this case for years. Too many aspects, too many claimants, too many defendants (at one time the Libraries were defendants), too many inconsistencies.

Google walks away a winner in that they have from the get go hobbled their product as "snippets". That part the plaintiffs could not overcome as far as DISPLAY and USE of product (copyright works). G, on the other hand, might have ALL of the content, but they can't use all of the content for any given purpose other than back room research on the world's works as housed in Libraries for whatever purpose or results of same they have in mind.

I doubt that G will go after websites which block them. If that should ever begin, I have no doubt there would be a significant backlash.

[tangor]

Google wins book scan battle. Again. Can post pages online. Again

[theregister.co.uk...]

More info on this topic.

[lucy24]

I think this means G can copy and index a website

Uhm, I think this is about Google Books-- the entity that has never been able to make up its mind whether it wants to be WorldCat or the Internet Archive, so it currently does a pretty mediocre job at both.