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 ...

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 ...

Dean of Libraries Paul Courant tossed an academic journal on a table in his office. The earwax-colored front cover read: The National Tax Journal, March 1980. “Read that for as long as you can before ...

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.

HathiTrust, an online academic library that includes more than 10 million works, won a legal victory this month, strengthening the cause of fair use. The decision also brightened the prospects for ...

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.

In addition, AG claims that the library effort represents a “potentially catastrophic” security risk also “ring hollow,” the brief argues, because the HathiTrust implements the same security measures ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Armed with digital versions of most of the publications in its collection, the University Library ...

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 ...

Laws Passed by the First General Assembly of the State of Illinois at their second session, held at Kaskaskia. Kaskaskia [Ill.]: Blackwell & Berry, 1819. From Google Books. Another Copy from the Hathi ...