The phrase “closed until further notice due to COVID-19” has become all too familiar. And, while we have started to grow accustomed to losing access to many resources that typically define our ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild in the fall of 2011 against five HathiTrust Digital Library ...

The constitutionality of digital fair use was upheld this past October, when US District Court Judge Harold Baer summarily dismissed the Authors Guild’s year-old lawsuit against the HathiTrust library ...

Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - The "fair use" doctrine allows a digital library to create a full-text searchable database of copyrighted works and to make those works accessible, the 2nd Circuit ruled today.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Dean of Libraries Paul Courant tossed an academic journal on a table in his office. The ...

Many writers and scholars have criticized Google’s immense digitization project for errors in scanning quality and for many different kinds of problems with the metadata associated with each item.

Digitization proponents and library advocates hailed the October 10 decision in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case as an unequivocal, emphatic victory for fair use. In the ruling, “Judge Baer added ...

In a key fair use ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed Judge Harold Baer’s October 2012 verdict in the Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust case. The copyright infringement suit was ...

They say bad news comes in threes. Based on the last six months, the authors and publishers fighting copyright battles in higher education might agree. Copyright ...

Not sure where this would best be posted, so here goes everything. I've been trying to get a copy of this book for some time now. It seems near impossible without me personally visiting one of these ...