Internet wins with the paper. Google can scan books - dobreprogramy

Google won its case in court redemption that eight years ago he founded the Authors Guild. In the debate about whether the copying and sharing parts of books is a violation of copyright law was a key provision on fair use. If Judge Denny Chin did not accede to the argument corporation, its budget would be noticeably slimmed down – Lawyers Guild demanded 750 dollars. compensation of each book, which in total would mean a fine of more than $ 3 billion.

Society odnios?o notable advantage of business Google Books – China said in justifying the decision (PDF). In her view by scanning more than

20 million items (case did not concern all) and make them available on the Web fragments, the company offered to students, teachers and researchers access to sources which otherwise could not reach. In this way tchni?to new life into books that have littered the dusty shelves in the library. At the same time the company has not gone beyond the scope of fair use, because it did not allow Internet users to download the entire contents. All told, the judge came to the conclusion that the activities of the group contributes more to increase, not reduce their sales.

this argument completely agree Authors Guild. Google has created an unauthorized digital editions of almost all of the valuable literature copyrighted to take advantage of the display – says Paul Aiken, director of the organization. In his view the action on such a large scale is the transgression of the limits of fair use and should not be treated in such a way. Google itself, in turn, believes that the project is simply a directory of books as digital era.

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