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The Open Content Alliance has corporate sponsors of its own, but it seems to be emerging as an alternative for librarians who aren’t comfortable with the role of corporations in distributing public-domain material. -
1voteThis month Google unveiled new features for its fast-growing collection of searchable books, and one of them is the ability to cut and paste text from its books. Such sampling had not been easy in the past because Google’s books are displayed as image files rather than as text. Now users can use a new selection tool to identify a favorite clip, and a pop-up window appears offering the text, or Web code that allows a picture of the sample to be pasted into a document or blog.
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1voteMr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, argues that Google’s library-scanning project could cause a copyright catastrophe by casting doubt on fair-use doctrine. Fair use is typically threshed out on a case-by-case basis, the scholar says, but Google is asking courts to issue broad rulings on the doctrine
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