{"id":1209,"date":"2006-06-09T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2006-06-09T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T17:30:20","slug":"google-book-search-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Google Book Search: Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"To scan or not to scan? from Guardian Unlimited: Culture Vulture\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/culturevulture\/archives\/2006\/03\/08\/to_scan_or_not_to_scan.html\">To scan or not to scan?<\/a> (Guardian Unlimited, March 8, 2006) is an blog entry by Culture Vulture Victor Keegan in defense of Google&#8217;s scanning of millions of books, including books still under copyright. The comments are good too. The key issue seems to be whether this is covered by &#8220;fair use&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Technically, as Charles Arthur points out, this is blatant infringement. Turn to the front of any book and you will find a paragraph that states that no part of it shall be copied or stored without the publisher&#8217;s permission. The University of Michigan is keeping material that is still within copyright &#8220;dark&#8221; until the copyright runs out, while Google argues that letting people read snippets of copyrighted books is covered by &#8220;fair use&#8221; provisions of the kind that mean we don&#8217;t go to jail for sneaking into Waterstone&#8217;s to look up a reference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found this from the <a title=\"Google Book Search - News &amp; Views - Media Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/googlebooks\/newsviews\/media.html\">Google Book Search &#8211; News &amp; Views &#8211; Media Coverage<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To scan or not to scan? (Guardian Unlimited, March 8, 2006) is an blog entry by Culture Vulture Victor Keegan in defense of Google&#8217;s scanning of millions of books, including books still under copyright. The comments are good too. The key issue seems to be whether this is covered by &#8220;fair use&#8221;. Technically, as Charles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Book Search: Opinion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}