{"id":57,"date":"2016-02-02T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:06:16","slug":"the-google-books-dispute-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/2016\/02\/02\/the-google-books-dispute-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google Books Dispute Resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"* Guest post by Amanda Zerangue (MLS, JD), UNT Libraries GLA\r\n\r\nThe Google Books Dispute Resurfaces<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn a move that comes as a surprise to many keeping tabs on the Google Books dispute, Authors Guild recently petitioned<\/a> the Supreme Court to hear its case against Google Books, arguing again<\/em> that Google\u2019s book digitization project constitutes copyright infringement.\u00a0 It is important to note that Authors Guild\u2019s appeal does not mean the Supreme Court will hear the case– the Supreme Court\u2019s practice of hearing and issuing rulings on cases of unsettled law make it unlikely that Authors Guild\u2019s appeal will move forward.\r\n\r\nA little background information may clarify why this seems like an exercise in futility on behalf of Authors Guild. \u00a0It all started when Google, with the cooperation of many major libraries but without the permission of copyright holders, scanned and made available digital copies of millions of books, including some belonging to Authors Guild. The digitized books can be freely searched by the public for a specific word or term, and search results include \u201csnippets<\/u>\u201d of text surrounding the search terms.\r\n\r\nAuthors Guild first brought suit against Google in 2005, arguing that Google\u2019s actions infringed its copyrights. However, the District Court Judge agreed<\/a> with Google\u2019s argument that its actions were protected under \u201cfair use,\u201d which under 17 U.S.C. \u00a7 107<\/a>, is not an infringement of copyright.\u00a0 Authors Guild appealed, and lost again in October 2015 when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously decided<\/a> that the Google books project is legal and not an infringement of copyright laws.\u00a0 Relying on the HathiTrust<\/a> decision, the Appellate Court held that the search function and providing \u201csnippets\u201d of text was transformative enough to fall under the protections of fair use.\r\n\r\nWhile the issue seems both unambiguous and a settled area of law, we won\u2019t find out until later in the spring whether the Supreme Court decides to hear the case and continue the copyright battle.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"* Guest post by Amanda Zerangue (MLS, JD), UNT Libraries GLA The Google Books Dispute Resurfaces In a move that comes as a surprise to many keeping tabs on the Google Books dispute, Authors Guild recently petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case against Google Books, arguing again that Google\u2019s book digitization project constitutes… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,16,15],"tags":[29,28,30],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-court-cases","category-fair-use","tag-authors-guild","tag-google-books","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XgbJ-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/copyright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}