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The rights holders that sued Google would probably sue a non-profit as well.
by chrisbennet 11y ago
The rights holders that sued Google would probably sue a non-profit as well.
- jrochkind1 11y agoThey did sue the non-profit HathiTrust (a coalition started by the U of Michigan) -- HathiTrust won, after many years. Now, HathiTrust was not generally making _full text_ of in-copyright works available, but only search results. HathiTrust doesn't even provide snippets of your search results, just page numbers, unfortunately -- mostly out of fear of lawsuits. But HathiTrust's court victory helped establish at least some fair use rights for scanning of books -- more than Google itself did, or was interested in -- if the settlement had been accepted, no legal rights would have been established for anyone, only Google would have had permission from the Author's Guild, endorsed by a court to give them -- but nobody else-- freedom from lawsuits from anyone else too.
- magicalist 11y ago> But HathiTrust's court victory helped establish at least some fair use rights for scanning of books -- more than Google itself did er... https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google-part-ii-fair-use-proceedings https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-google-part-ii-fai...